“Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive." Ennesby, Schlock Mercenary ” — Howard Tayler 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
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. — George Lucas 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, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I am ... troubled and grieved when men argue that many women want to be raped and that it does not bother… — Christine de Pizan 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and… — Edward Zwick 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
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
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
