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Villainy Quotes by Mark Twain
- Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
- 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…
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- 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… — Samuel Johnson
- We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to… — Harry Belafonte
- Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it… — John Owen
- All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that… — Vernor Vinge
- The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without… — Martin Caidin
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Edward Zwick