Top 58 Quotes About Villainy
#1. Wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety, and are united under the banner of Satan.
Bernard Lewis
#2. Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing?
William Shakespeare
#3. The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#4. Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#5. For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
#6. Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.
Matt Taibbi
#7. Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.
Richard Corliss
#8. Varys appeared not long after Lord Jacelyn had left. "Men are such faithless creatures," he said by way of greeting. Tyrion sighed. "Who's the traitor today?" The eunuch handed him a scroll. "So much villainy, it sings a sad song for our age. Did honor die with your fathers?
George R R Martin
#9. I am ... troubled and grieved when men argue that many women want to be raped and that it does not bother them at all to be raped by men even when they verbally protest. It would be hard to believe that such great villainy is actually pleasant for them.
Christine De Pizan
#10. 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, But worn a bait for ladies.
William Shakespeare
#11. Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer ... a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.
Christopher Moore
#13. Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.
Samuel Johnson
#14. Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
Charles Caleb Colton
#15. I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.
James Otis
#16. Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
George Lucas
#17. Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection.
David Mitchell
#19. And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare
#20. When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.
Arthur Miller
#21. Never has there been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,'
Steve McHugh
#22. Villainy was not simply the red raging glory of inflicting well-deserved pain; it was also the curdling knowledge of having inflicted injustice. A villain simply did not care. Only the victims did.
Meredith Duran
#23. Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
Washington Irving
#24. For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
Bertolt Brecht
#25. [The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
Vernor Vinge
#26. Dick Elpinoy and I didn't get along. He was too hoity-toity for my tastes; I didn't follow rules well enough for his. But now we were united in villainy. Or something.
Lia Habel
#27. 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
#28. You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. 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. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey
#30. Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
#31. For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.
Andrea Seigel
#32. Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Mark Twain
#33. 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 fop.
Samuel Johnson
#34. 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. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
Edward Zwick
#35. 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 a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.
Martin Caidin
#36. I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.
Kevin Spacey
#37. The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.
Mark Twain
#38. In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.
Zoe Heller
#39. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But where her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety.
William Shakespeare
#40. A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.
Lemony Snicket
#41. Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
Oliver Goldsmith
#43. No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.
William Shakespeare
#44. We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.
Jose Rizal
#45. He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
Iain Pears
#46. Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.
John Rhys-Davies
#47. The real source of her villainy came from those qualities that supposedly make men great leaders- a thirst for power, relentless drive paired with massive ego, and a total lack of emotions.
Mike Madrid
#48. I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
Victor LaValle
#49. If there is one thing I've learned from the years in the criminal enterprises, it's that anyone can do almost anything to anybody else for any reason, and villainy and treachery doesn't have a thing to do with race, sex, species, or creed.
Tim Pratt
#50. Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.
Lemony Snicket
#51. I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'
Anthony Zerbe
#52. To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
Franz Grillparzer
#53. The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.
Ahmed Mostafa
#54. In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.
Vironika Tugaleva
#55. There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
Charles Baxter
#56. If I must consort with rogues [ ... ] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
Georgette Heyer
#57. The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive - if their looks matched their charm and their cunning - they wouldn't only be dangerous.
They would be irresistible.
Nenia Campbell
#58. Suddenly, however, the dastardly department of my personality presented two plans, one of which involved dynamite, mustache wax, some rope, and train tracks ... which I rejected due to financial investment.
Laurie Notaro
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