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Quotes About Sinister

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.
~ Lee Van Cleef
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
~ Voltaire
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
However, there are ways of trying to strangle ideas that do not involve straightforward attempts at censorship or intimidation. The suggestion that there is something sinister, even un-American, about intense devotion to ideas, reason, logic, evidence, and precise language is one of them.
~ Susan Jacoby
Thirteen is the most sinister of all the signs./ If you want to greet a gremlin, it will do just fine.
~ Susan Weiner
Albert of Wallenstein] loved war. He was very tall and skeletally thin, usually dressed in sinister black, with a single streak of red. "[He is] unmerciful," wrote the astronomer Johannes Kepler, describing Wallenstein, "devoted only to himself and his desires...covetous, deceitful...usually silent, often violent.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
She gave me a slightly sinister smile.
~ Susanna Moore
Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.
~ Suzanne Collins
from a place of protection to a sinister trap. I know at some point we'll be forced to reenter its depths, either to hunt or be hunted, but for right now I'm planning to stick
~ Suzanne Collins
For me, the jungle has quickly evolved from a place of protection to a sinister trap. I know at some point we'll be forced to reenter its depths, either to hunt or be hunted.
~ Suzanne Collins
Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A grave and dark-clad company, quoth Goodman Brown.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Impassive clock! Terrifying, sinister god, Whose finger threatens us and says: Remember!
~ Charles Baudelaire
The cat is the beautiful devil.
~ Charles Bukowski
The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination.
~ Charles Bukowski
I gave him my code name. 'This is Mr. Slow Death.
~ Charles Bukowski
So Ah'm no evil, Ah'm just plain bad.
~ Charles Stross
Being a really evil bastard isn't just a job, it's a vocation!
~ Tom Holt
Mmm. Let me guess. I like to drink the blood of innocents, feast on the entrails of knights and eat the hearts of small children everywhere. (Sin) Aye, that was much the consensus. (Callie) Well, I hope you didn't go to such trouble to feed me. I fear 'tis off season for good blood, and knights can be rather testy when you disembowel them. (Sin)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.
~ George Gordon Byron
My lady," Tyrion said. "You are lovely, make no mistake, but … I cannot do this. My father be damned. We will wait. The turn of a moon, a year, a season, however long it takes. Until you have come to know me better, and perhaps to trust me a little." His smile might have been meant to be reassuring, but without a nose it only made him look more grotesque and sinister.
~ George R.R. Martin
They were all around him, half a dozen of them, white-faced children with dark eyes, boys and girls together. And in their hands, the daggers.
~ George R.R. Martin
An ugly smile. An ugly soul.
~ George R.R. Martin