Sinister Quotes

124 Sinister quotes by 108 unique authors

You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes… — Theda Bara
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy. — Mikhail Gorbachev
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency… — Claude Monet
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around… — Hermann Hesse
It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through… — Robert B. Laughlin
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all… — David Livingstone
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives… — David Livingstone
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain… — Karl Popper
Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly… — S. S. Van Dine
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. — Victor Garber
Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want… — Dan Smoot
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late… — Lisa McMann
The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When… — Ron Paul
Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all… — Barack Obama
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never… — Stephen King
It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side. — Lukas Haas
Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced. — Winston Churchill
What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting… — Marilyn Frye
A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody. — Robert Breault
Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians… — Catharine Arnold
I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that… — Chuck Klosterman
It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is… — Richard Reti
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. — Cyril Connolly

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