Best Villains Lines
195 Villains quotes by 170 unique authors
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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when…
— J. R. Moehringer
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I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character…
— Philip Pullman
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Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,…
— Brenda Ueland
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For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's…
— Angela Carter
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Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who…
— David Sedaris
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It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
— Mary Balogh
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God! I hated this business of being grown-up. I hated having to make decisions where I didn't know what was behind the door. I wanted…
— Marian Keyes
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The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned…
— Karen Marie Moning
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She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.
— Anna Godbersen
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I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
— Ian Fleming
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Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire…
— E E Cummings
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I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance
— Chris Colfer
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September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.
— Atul Gawande
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But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.
— Cornelia Funke
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I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to…
— Heinrich Heine
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There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
— Glen Cook
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He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted.…
— Jim Butcher
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Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded…
— Richelle Mead
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