Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Next to the sin of murder comes the sin of sexual impurity.

Being a bad guy is fun for me.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

No one may do evil that good may come.

Verily, Polytheists are unclean.

Eschew all unrighteousness; that is, slaying of kinsmen, and murder, and perjury, and witchcraft and enchantment, and adultery, and incest

The Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even Antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness. the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even Antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.

As to polygamy, I charge it to be … evil—a scarlet whore!

They make haste to shed blood unjustly. For they promise blood, and gather evil. Their path runneth to evil, for they possess their souls in dishonour

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

Husbands & wifes [sic] are separating at a fearful rate and “taking up” with other persons. Not infrequently a man is living with two or three wifes. Though this has been the custom of the race and habit of the country for years, yet it cannot be looked upon in any light than a huge system of prostitution by sane persons.

Because of our sin, we as individuals and as a nation continue to experience a decline in moral values and beliefs. Our sinful behavior has resulted in increasing rates of unmarried adolescent and adult sexual activity, the birth of children to unwed mothers, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and decreasing marital fidelity. These are all signs of the decline of our culture.

We are here today because the President suffered a terrible moral lapse of marital infidelity—not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society. It is a sex scandal …. And when you hear people say, “This is not about sex”—it is about sex.

This is a filthy people wallowing in vice…. They do not avoid incest. They do not attend God’s church in true reverence. Moreover, men, … I shall not say marry, but rather debauch the wives of their brothers.

If a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that they be no wickedness among you.

When you can't be loyal to your friends, I don't like that world.