Quotes About Villains

Moreover, each man's malevolence quite involuntarily exaggerated the other's importance, as if the chief of villains were confronting the king of imbeciles.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?

Okay. Life isn't like the movies—you know, how the bad guys just want to be bad guys, villains. In real life, there aren't very many villains. Mostly, people believe they're doing the right thing. Even the ones who are doing bad things usually believe they're heroes, that whatever terrible thing they're doing is to prevent something worse. They're scared.

The "play" that is the nation's capital never closes, high drama and low comedy, villains and heroes, all the stuff of compelling theatre. And in true theatrical spirit, the show must, and hopefully will, go on.

Mud and dust almost have personalities. They seem to be alive. Like scoundrels. True villains. Enemies.

My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an all-too-human, venerable, and funny vigilante superhero.

I know. Being evil is great. Who else besides super-villains and fortune five hundred companies can get away with not paying taxes?

Only than the villains of the Hierarchy will turn their face to the man hooked by millennia of self treason and will realize that they are on the top of that pyramid due to the one they, the elites, have humiliated and brutalized elites who became what they are due to this MAN! They will realize that they are nothing without this man and only then they will know that they are no longer elites, but people!

some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent appetizing charm of their villains.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

Los grandes canallas tienen algo de héroes y los grandes héroes tienen algo de canallas.

Hubo un tiempo, no muy remoto aún, en el que los villanos eran gente buena. Se llamaban «villanos» porque vivían en una villa. Pero, como otras palabras transformadas por el azar del tiempo, el carácter humilde e ignorante de los villanos se convirtió en sinónimo de indecencia, grosería y maldad. Tal parece que ni los propios villanos comprenden por qué la historia los ha convertido en malos.

In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains. But it's not true. Granted, men are often brutal to women. Yet it is women who routinely manage brothels in poor countries, who ensure that their daughter's genitals are cut, who feed sons before daughters, who take their sons but not their daughters to clinics for vaccination.

One of the pleasures of following baseball is that every day its characters participate in an unfolding narrative of events in which there are heroes, clowns, and villains, moments of comedy and tragedy, and plenty of time during the pauses between pitches for daydreaming.

I feel like a class traitor when I say it but the first lesson from the 'heroic' age of the Left in the Thirties is that it never works like that in a conflict in which your own society is involved. You can be a critical friend of one side or another, a very critical friend as often as not, but you have to choose which side you are on, and those who don't usually end up as the biggest villains of all.

This is the lesson we had learned: when you don't want to face the consequences of your actions, you focus on the soap opera of public life, with its heroes and villains, its clear narratives.

As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and discover evidence of feet-of-clay, in order to label them as mere lucky fellows, or as villains-were-the-facts-but-known, and the eminent and great are ground between the millstones of envy, and reduced again to common size.

Testosterone Autism: The person beset by this ailment....develops an interest in various tools and machinery, and he's drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains.

We're the good guys. That we're scary doesn't mean we're the villains.

Oh, I just adore nasties.

They resented being cast as the villains in a drama, but it was their own stunted, stubborn blindness that made them so well suited to the role. They couldn't change.

It is a disquieting fact that we tend to find villains more interesting than their victims – in fiction and in reality – but the Nuremberg Trials revealed that in real life criminals and murderers are invariably colourless individuals, who lack personality as well as compassion and conscience. It is their victims who frequently display courage and endurance beyond normal human experience. And