Villainy Quotes
35 quotes by 28 authors
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
— Iain Pears
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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
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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
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
— Sophocles
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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
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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
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I'm interested in villainy.
— Jonathan Frid
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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
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Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.
— William Shakespeare
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
— Samuel Johnson
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
— Alexander Pope
Who Wrote These Villainy Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 35 Villainy Quotes, led by these top contributors: