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Quotes About Sinister

The serpent'll have you. He likes tender flesh. I like to watch.
~ Storm Constantine
Daniel wanted to laugh. They all looked both sinister and ridiculous, like a horror-film family of vampires waiting for prey.
~ Storm Constantine
In A Tale of Two Cities Madame Defarge makes sinister use of a nurturant task, her knitting, to implement her vengeance. Childless and driven, she embodies the terrifying excesses of the French Revolution.
~ Susan Brownmiller
The shock doctrine is about overriding these deeply human impulses to help, seeking instead to capitalize on the vulnerability of others in order to maximize wealth and advantage for a select few. There are few things more sinister than that.
~ Naomi Klein
There's something worse than monsters in that place: something that makes monsters.
~ Naomi Novik
Fu allora che si accorse di non essere solo all'interno del mausoleo, e che un profilo scuro si muoveva sul soffitto, avanzando silenziosamente come un insetto. Max sentì l'orologio scivolare dalle mani fredde di sudore e alzo lo sguardo. Uno degli angeli di pietra che aveva visto all'entrata camminava capovolto sul soffitto. La figura si fermò e, guardando Max, mostrò un sorriso crudele e allungò un dito accusatore contro di lui.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?
~ Thomas Hardy
Henchard, like all his kind, was superstitious, and he could not help thinking that the concatenation of events this evening had produced was the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.
~ Thomas Hardy
On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
~ Thomas Harris
Dr. Doemling, does he want to fuck her or kill her, or eat her, or what?' Mason asked, exhausting the possibilities he could see. 'Probably all three,' Dr. Doemling said.
~ Thomas Harris
On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
~ Thomas Harris
our landlord and landlady. Their house, just outside the town, was quite a little chateau, and the evil that dwelt within its highly polished salons, that reclined on its lace-covered beds, and was coiled deep in the stuffing of its exquisitely upholstered chairs and sofas, was enough to make the blood turn icy in the veins.
~ Kay Boyle
nou? tuturor ne merge ca fratelui Medardus din Elixirele diavolului a lui E.T.A. Hoffman: exist? undeva un frate neliniÈ™titor, groaznic, adic? o replic? a noastr? în persoan?, legat? de noi prin sânge, care conÈ›ine È™i adun? cu r?utate tot ceea ce noi am vrea din toat? inima s? dispar? sub mas?.
~ C.G. Jung
blasphemer Kweethul the Vile!
~ C.L. Werner
Pale hair fell in waves to his shoulders, framing a face mortal females considered a sensual feast. They didn't know the man was actually a devil in angel's skin. They should have, though. He practically glowed with irreverence, and there was an unholy gleam in his green eyes that proclaimed he would laugh in your face while cutting out your heat. Or laugh in your face while you cut out his heart.
~ Gena Showalter
Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Paralyse and ultimately kill.
~ Ira Levin
I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.
~ Iris Murdoch
solitary sinister men with terrible secrets — of whom Clement now and forever after must be one.
~ Iris Murdoch
There are those who, even if valued, remain sinister witnesses from the past. James is for me such a witness. It is not even clear whether we like each other. If I were told today that James was dead my first emotion might be pleasurable; though how much does this prove?
~ Iris Murdoch
The room had the rather sinister tedium which some bedrooms have, a sort of weary banality which is a reminder of death. A dressing table can be a terrible thing.
~ Iris Murdoch
The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
~ Irvine Welsh
As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
~ Irvine Welsh
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
~ William Shakespeare