Character Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about…

— Daryl Hannah

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same. Death on her left. Devil on her right.

— Karen Marie Moning

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

— Torquato Tasso

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

— Samuel Johnson

She is a prude in her own defence ... under the specious mask of propriety, she conceals the decay of her worn-out charms.

— Anonymous

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of…

— Michel de Montaigne

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

— George Chapman

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough…

— Agnes Repplier

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all…

— Charles Churchill