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Quotes About Sinister

If hell...has one complexion more hideous than another, it is where villainy is masked by hypocracy
~ Walter Scott
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
~ Charles Manson
The face of evil is frighteningly ordinary.
~ Charles W. Colson
It was darker than the devil's asshole out there.
~ Cherie Priest
All this, in the midst of a city already plagued by the Ku Klux Klan—a group more sinister and suspicious than most people have any idea, and their public face is troublesome enough without any secret agenda hiding beneath their ridiculous robes. I tell you, they're stranger than the Freemasons and not half as well thought out, but they're radical, blind believers of awful things.
~ Cherie Priest
our host showed us back through the beaded curtain. "I trust you can find your way out?" he said, holding the fringe so it didn't drop back and tickle us, or tangle up in our hair, or whatever it is that sinister beaded curtains do to inconvenience the unwitting masses.
~ Cherie Priest
As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
What we can be sure of, what we can rely on absolutely,is evil.It never lets us down.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
The men found one mine—also Russian-made—that had a particularly diabolical design. A dozen ships could pass over it without incident, but the thirteenth ship would cause it to detonate. "It took a curious sort of mind to come up with a notion like that," wrote one Marine, wondering if the number thirteen had a "sinister connotation for Russians as it did in the States.
~ Hampton Sides
metamorphosed into a creature as evil as any mythical Hulder: "a woman
~ Harold Schechter
Hubbard mentions an organization he calls SMERSH, a name taken from James Bond novels. Hubbard describes it as a "hidden government …that aspired to world domination!" Psychiatry is the dominating force behind this sinister institution.
~ Lawrence Wright
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.
~ Learned Hand
It was amazing, she thought, how everything having to do with Count Olaf was frightening.
~ Lemony Snicket
Count Olaf was so obsessed with getting his filthy hands on the money that he hatched a devious plan that gives me nightmares to this day.
~ Lemony Snicket
Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain.
~ Lemony Snicket
story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the sinister mystery that surrounds them, and in this real world the arrival of lions means that the story is about to get much worse
~ Lemony Snicket
very tall and very thin, dressed in a gray suit that had many dark stains on it. His face was unshaven, and rather than two eyebrows, like most human beings have, he had just one long one. His eyes were very, very shiny, which made him look both hungry and angry. "Hello, my children.
~ Lemony Snicket
A slimy lawyer is calling someone else sinister? He who is without sin . . .
~ Jamie Pope
Ten minutes passed before his (Ranger's) Mercedes appeared at the end of the street, gliding through the rain, sleek and sinister, water not daring to adhere to the paint finish.
~ Janet Evanovich
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
~ Bill Bryson
The sort of enjoyment that we all get from that voyeuristic impulse of looking into other people's house as we pass them, and the idea that there might be something sinister or strange going on in the houses we pass every day or in our neighborhood, is a very compelling idea.
~ Paula Hawkins
layers? "Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister," a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.
~ Timothy Egan
Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.
~ Timothy Egan
There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped--blood even on the hand that had not held the knife.
~ Oscar Wilde