Top 100 Quotes About Sinister
#1. Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain.
Lemony Snicket
#2. Regarding sleep, this sinister adventure of each night, one could say that people fall asleep daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we didn't know that it results from their being oblivious of danger.
Charles Baudelaire
#3. The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.
David Guterson
#4. The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws and attaining the most grotesque extremes of sinister bizarrerie.
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. There is no God and we are his inventors. Humanity designed him like some sinister masochistic architects. The infinite blueprint for our intellectual enslavement.
C.J. Anderson
#6. What truly captivated Rachael were her eyes - wide, deer-like, yet hauntingly sinister green with flecks of gold dancing in silent mirth.
Deidre Huesmann
#7. The European upper-class could not decide if the Jews were a noble race of persecuted biblical heroes, everyone a King David and Maccabee, or a sinister conspiracy of mystically brilliant, hook-nosed, hobbits with almost supernatural powers.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#8. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.
Norman Vincent Peale
#9. Her gaze lingers on him a moment longer, though, and the way his short dark hair and naturally pale coloring enhance the sinister appearance of his stare.
Lynn Kelling
#11. He smiles. The smile is not sinister or predatory. It's merely a smile, a formal kind of smile, friendly but a little distant, as if I'm a kitten in a window. One he's looking at but doesn't intend to buy. I
Margaret Atwood
#12. It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D.H. Lawrence
#13. A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I'm not much of a giggler unless I've done something sinister.
Penny Reid
#14. People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
#15. Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
J.G. Ballard
#16. The sort of enjoyment that we all get from that voyeuristic impulse of looking into other people's house as we pass them, and the idea that there might be something sinister or strange going on in the houses we pass every day or in our neighborhood, is a very compelling idea.
Paula Hawkins
#17. Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education.
Ben Aaronovitch
#18. You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.
Michael Shannon
#19. It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is eternally alone, is horrible.
Aleister Crowley
#20. Feris was taller than the average man and his looks were sinister in the form of long dark hair and deep-set eyes. He had an untouchable, magnetic quality that consumed any beholder whose gaze fell upon him as he spoke, and when he fell silent, his penetrating stare easily defied any predators.
Jettie Necole
#21. The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!'
And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?
Thomas Hardy
#22. We creatives are allowed to be slightly sinister
T.S. Easton
#23. The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.
Annie Laurie Gaylor
#24. Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.
Nike Thaddeus
#25. He was never more sinister than when he was most polite ...
J.M. Barrie
#26. His vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.
Patricia Hamill
#27. While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
Jung Chang
#28. There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.
Winston Churchill
#30. Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people.
Anya Seton
#31. BURGESS
How do you like Moscow?
CORAL
Loathe it, darling. I cannot understand what those Three Sisters were on about. It gives the play a very sinister slant.
Alan Bennett
#32. If you go out in the country, spend a lot of time on decaying farms, and you see a lot of crumbling tobacco farms, and wandering the woods, there's something beneath the surface; there's something older ... more sinister.
Cullen Bunn
#33. Suddenly, everything I'd ever read made sense. All of the cliches about electricity and drowning and falling and other sinister metaphors for a kiss all swept over me. It was nuclear fusion. It was the door to Narnia.
Lily Anderson
#34. The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves.
Eleanor Catton
#35. The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White's elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.
Lisa McMann
#36. He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.
J.M. Barrie
#37. I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.
Nic Pizzolatto
#38. The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#39. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.
Bertrand Russell
#40. There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
William S. Burroughs
#41. That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
Cyril Connolly
#42. Mr. Guppy suspects everybody ... of entertaining ... Sinister designs upon him ... he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary
Charles Dickens
#43. The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.
Margery Fish
#44. People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
Lisa Marie Presley
#45. When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.
Scott Westerfeld
#46. Unforgivable Curses are the three most powerful and sinister spells known to the wizarding world, and are tools of the Dark Arts. They were first classified as "Unforgivable" in 1717. They are the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, the Cruciatus Curse, Crucio, and the Imperius Curse, Imperio.
George Duckett
#47. Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.
Ron Paul
#48. I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
Anais Nin
#49. Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister - that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
Christopher Hitchens
#50. [Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
Winston Churchill
#51. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
Alexander Hamilton
#52. Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.
Honore De Balzac
#53. You're a sinister little shit, aren't you?" Victra asks.
"I'm Gold, bitch. What'd you expect? Warm milk and cookies just because I'm pocket sized?
Pierce Brown
#54. I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister.
Robert Kennedy
#55. A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
Edward Young
#56. When James Wan is out there the horror is real, no doubt about that Check out for own proof if you have guts Sinister 1,2... Insidious 1,2...
Deyth Banger
#57. I thought of you once as an angel... truthful and devoted. But you were born with sinister hands, so evil that you crushed your own wings. And now, my little angel will never fly.
Aven Jayce
#58. When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
William Blake
#59. If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
P. J. O'Rourke
#60. Some sinister secret lat buried in the heart of the graveyard !
Rajib Mukherjee
#61. Among more recent innovators was the Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov, whose novel Bend Sinister is trophied with delightful oddities like kwazinka ('a slit between the folding parts of a screen') and shchekotiki (which is 'half-tingle, half-tickle').6
Henry Hitchings
#62. How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'
Craig Brown
#63. Nicholas, dressed in black and trailing them like a sinister storm cloud, had a dry little preoccupied smile.
Martha Wells
#64. As one becomes aware of the decline of violence, the world begins to look different. The past seems less innocent; the present less sinister.
Steven Pinker
#65. Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
Dick Cavett
#66. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry - the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
Emma Goldman
#67. The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.
Adlai Stevenson I
#68. We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
Mark Steyn
#69. A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.
Robert Breault
#70. It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.
Chapman Cohen
#71. He had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All
Ernest Hemingway,
#73. Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!
Sophie Turner
#74. It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.
MyAnna Buring
#75. As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.
Vladimir Sorokin
#76. This was a dank, sinister chill: the chill of shadows where poison toadstools grown, their ruddy colors beckoning a child to come, come take a taste of candy.
Robert McCammon
#77. It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
Robert B. Laughlin
#78. Friends suggested that it sounded a bit sinister. But something about it must have captivated Bezos: he registered the URL in September 1994, and he kept it. Type Relentless into the Web today and it takes you to Amazon.
Brad Stone
#79. When we are older we are able to live in - and make the best of - one continuing world, but when we are young we feel sometimes that in an unknown and sinister fashion the whole cosmos has been changed, one age ended and another begun when we were not noticing what was happening.
J.B. Priestley
#80. Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes De Mille
#81. He moved out the door but looked back, doing it over his leather clad shoulder, a sinister biker who had a light touch, a molten look, a way with babies, and a talented mouth.
Kristen Ashley
#82. For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
Fiona McIntosh
#83. The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.
Rufus Wainwright
#84. If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.
Simon Toyne
#85. The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.
Russell Baker
#86. There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician!
Robert Anthony Kerr
#87. The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.
George Orwell
#88. No sign, so far, of anything sinister - but I live in hope.
Agatha Christie
#89. Writers should be orderly and predictable in their lives, so that they can be ferocious and sinister in their work.
Flaubert-G
#90. When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.
Corey Taylor
#91. The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
Robert Plant
#92. There was a malevolence about them, a sinister feel as their eyes locked onto us and didn't let go.
Richelle Mead
#93. But my behavior was really the result of the illness, which had progressed far enough to produce some of its most famous and sinister hallmarks: confusion, failure of mental focus and lapse of memory.
William Styron
#94. Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.
Adolf Hitler
#95. She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
Thomas Hardy
#96. Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir
or Sewer
Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.
Patrick Dennis
#97. Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
Bayard Rustin
#98. The Sinister 1 freak me out, so creeepy so many mysteries, so many puzzles, so many reverses. This just freak me out...
Deyth Banger
#100. You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.
Jim Butcher
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