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Quotes About Sinister

It's so dreadfully easy—killing people. And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter…that it's only you that matters!
~ Agatha Christie
But she might, she just might, be something more... something that's lasted on from a very early age and which crops up now and then in country places. It's frightening when it does, because there's real malevolence - not just a desire to impress.
~ Agatha Christie
but his face is a bad face. Cruel, hawklike, predatory.
~ Agatha Christie
Ah, well, bad blood somewhere. Mind you, I like the rascal—but he's the kind who would murder his grandmother for a shilling or two quite cheerfully. No moral sense. Odd the way some people seem to be born without it.
~ Agatha Christie
A childish rhyme of my infancy came back into my mind - the rhyme of the ten little soldier boys. It had fascinated me as a child of two - the inexorable diminishment - the sense of inevitability. I began, secretly, to collect victims....
~ Agatha Christie
Just one more line, please. I'll do anything. And I mean anything." "Good, we've got him hooked," said Ryan. "It won't be long now before he's on heroin." Josie added, "Then it's just slavery, pedophilia, and murder." "Don't forget incest," said Flora.
~ Aiden Shaw
there are people in this world who commit horrifying and unnatural acts beyond anything your naive imagination could conceive. He is your worst nightmare. Heed my warning and stay away from him. I
~ Rachel Hartman
I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
~ Rachel Klein
These 'sinister communal elements' would if they came to power 'bring ruin and death to the country'.
~ Ramachandra Guha
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
~ Alexander McQueen
Do the two girls run around together? I think not. I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition. Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smart and quite ruthless. Carmen is a child who likes to pull wings off flies. Neither of them has any more moral sense than a cat. Neither have I. No Sternwood ever had. Proceed.
~ Raymond Chandler
The place was horrible by daylight. The Chinese junk on the walls, the rug, the fussy lamp, the teakwood stuff, the sticky riot of colors, the totem pole, the flagon of ether and laudanum - all this in the daytime had a stealthy nastiness, like a fag party.
~ Raymond Chandler
Yes," said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.
~ Raymond E. Feist
There was something a bit sinister about Noah's devotion to God; creepy, if you know what I mean.
~ Julian Barnes
I've always found cherubs a bit sinister. The idea of winged babies flying around with no nappies on seems like an accident waiting to happen. There would be shit everywhere. If I saw a cherub flying about in real life it would terrify me, whereas a Cyclops, which is another mythical being, wouldn't scare me at all, as it's just a bloke with one eye. He'd be registered disabled and get a decent parking space in today's world.
~ Karl Pilkington
A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.
~ Edward Young
Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how're-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter's-patients.
~ J.R. Ward
Wanna see how creepy I can be?"-Mr Teatime
~ Terry Pratchett
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for
~ Yuja Wang
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not be swayed by anything himself; the anticipation of the spectacle of fear by one who was terrified at nothing. The vice of a man who had become inhuman by losing his human greed.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
The other was short, thin, looking like a talent scout for a cemetery.
~ William Lashner
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.
~ David Herbert Lawrence