Villainy Quotes

35 quotes by 28 authors

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. — Mark Twain
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a… — Samuel Johnson
We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for… — Harry Belafonte
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out… — John Owen
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted… — Vernor Vinge
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that… — Martin Caidin
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it. — Iain Pears
And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me,… — James Otis
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. — Sophocles
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again.… — Edward Zwick
We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up.… — Roger Daltrey
I'm interested in villainy. — Jonathan Frid
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. — H. L. Mencken
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows,… — William Shakespeare
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame. — William Shakespeare
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. — Samuel Johnson
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. — Alexander Pope

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