Sinister Quotes
124 Sinister quotes by 108 unique authors
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
— Hermann Hesse
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
— John Mayer
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For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook…
— James M. Barrie
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For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
— Paul Theroux
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If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they…
— Rita Dove
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All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one…
— Douglas Adams
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An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something…
— David Foster Wallace
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Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But…
— William Shakespeare
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At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you…
— Daniel Handler
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This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling…
— Brandon Mull
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...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
— Thomas Hardy
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Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses…
— Bertrand Russell
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I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
— Anais Nin
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a…
— Zadie Smith
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Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.
— Marian Keyes
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He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...
— James M. Barrie
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Uh-huh. You know with that sinister tone you should look into working for the IRS. I’m sure they’re desperate for people who can cow others…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight…
— Thomas Ligotti
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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
— William S. Burroughs
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In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie…
— Karl Marx
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A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain,…
— Edward Gorey
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Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and…
— Theodore Roosevelt
Who Wrote These Sinister Quotes
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