Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive." Ennesby, Schlock Mercenary ” — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Dick Elpinoy and I didn't get along. He was too hoity-toity for my tastes; I didn't follow rules well enough for his.… — Lia Habel Copy Share Image
“What is heroism in our time? What is villainy? How much we have forgotten, if we don’t know the answer to such… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.' 'I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
“Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that a lady like...’ Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. ‘There is something elevated in the female spirit… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We always say that we cannot… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children,… — Evangeline Booth Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved;… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has… — Anthony Zerbe Copy Share Image
Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
![“We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see…” quote by Harry Belafonte](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/902/harry-belafonte-4893_abstract_we-americans-move-about-the-world-arroga_912364.jpg)
