villains Quotes

“No one thinks of himself as a villain . . . ”

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”

“There are no villains in this story. There’s just a ragtag band of hillbillies struggling to find their way—both for their sake and, by the grace of God, for mine.”

“Why, if not, we should be as able to win it without the King’s grace as with him. For I need not tell your Lordship that Miraz is no very great captain. And after that, we should be both victorious and kingless.”

“Miraz weeded them out. Belisar and Uvilas were shot with arrows on a hunting party: by chance, it was pretended. All the great house of the Passarids he sent to fight giants on the northern frontier till one by one they fell.”

“By open words A scheme of villainy is soon bewrayed.”

″‘Are you a supervillain or something?’ I gestured to the screen. ‘I mean come on.‘”

“Every story has a villain. Every story also has a hero. The Great Love Story the Scriptures are telling us about also reveals a Lover who longs for you. The story of your life is also the story of the long and passionate pursuit of your heart by the One who knows you best and loves you most.”

With a weapon-wielding hero and a villain who doesn’t make Mondays any nicer, Nix’s Keys to the Kingdom launch is imaginative and gripping. After an action-packed crescendo to the book’s middle -- when Arthur finally learns his destiny -- Nix keeps the drama going and doesn’t let it fall.

“Before the day is out, dozens of villains will deliver up false claims. Only my crow will convince Papa that you are the genuine villain.”

“There are no heroes or villains, just people caught and humbled by an awesome and catastrophic force.”

There seemed to be no doubt now that Cayley was a villain. Bill had never been familiar with a villain before. It didn’t seem quite fair of Cayley, somehow; he was taking rather a mean advantage of his friends.

“I suppose you meant that Cayley deliberately betrayed Mark, and tried to make him look like a murderer?”

He had only to deceive Miss Norris and the other guests; I had to deceive the world.

But what distinguished the physician’s ecstasy from Satan’s was the trait of wonder in it!

“Oh, those Villeforts are an accursed race!”

It appeared impossible to the baroness that a man of such delightfully pleasing manners should entertain evil designs against her; besides, the most corrupt minds only suspect evil when it would answer some interested end—useless injury is repugnant to every mind.

Sometimes, a strong man’s hand, sometimes a strong man’s breast, was set against my mouth to deaden my cries, and with a hot breath always close to me, I struggled ineffectually in the dark, while I was fastened tight to the wall. “And now,” said the suppressed voice with another oath, “call out again, and I’ll make short work of you!”

“I’ve had a firm mind and a firm will to have your life, since you was down here at your sister’s burying. I han’nt seen a way to get you safe, and I’ve looked arter you to know your ins and outs. For, says Old Orlick to himself, ‘Somehow or another I’ll have him!‘”