Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.” — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think villainy just comes naturally to me. I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice person… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, however, the dastardly department of my personality presented two plans, one of which involved dynamite, mustache wax, some rope, and train… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy. — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“But see you, we should travel by night. Dark times for dark business, as they says. No sun to bother Valeriana or… — Eve Forward Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not. Avoiding villainy is not that different from… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Jeth had an unnatural talent for nuclear physics. Should that be a crime? He didn't like governments. Who did? How smart do… — Tom Francis Copy Share Image
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it… — John Owen 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
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame. — William Shakespeare 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