Quotes About Antagonists

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come...

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. They will come.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!

A common refrain among Trump's antagonists in the press is that they must resist normalizing his presidency. But in the process, they have abnormalized journalism.

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

What's this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they're not really. It's somebody else's audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.

It's important that these people think of their adversaries specifically as assholes. That's what gives the modern rhetoric of polarization its singular stamp and makes it different from the execrations of other ages. Seeing our antagonists as assholes means, for one thing, that the enmity is personal. (189)

Soothing assumptions about the good faith and shared interests of antagonists are natural to democracy, as is the desire to spend money on things other than defense. Getting a democracy to do what does not come naturally requires leadership.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

My enemies are legion.

All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

Bad guys, in their various forms, on their various levels, didn't take time off.

You've got a point. But I like it better when the bad guys are just the bad guys." "There's always plenty of them to go around.

Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.

We don't mind enemies. We wouldn't know what to do without them.

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

But the greatest of these marks of respect was the involuntary homage which Caesar rendered to him, when he made an exception to the contemptuous clemency with which he was wont to treat his opponents, Pompeians as well as republicans, in the case of Cato alone, and pursued him even beyond the grave with that energetic hatred which practical statesmen are wont to feel towards antagonists opposing them from a region of ideas which they regard as equally dangerous and impracticable.

If you had no enemies, you had no fun.

Mrs. Bennet, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Elton, the Steele sisters, Fanny Dashwood, Elizabeth Elliot, Mrs. Clay, Lady Catherine de Bourgh … all differentiated, all unique in their unpleasantness.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The antagonists who evoke the most emotion are the ones who could have been heroes if they'd made better choices.

The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even more terrifying, some kind of blond Frankenstein assembled from assorted bitch parts.

We're happier when the assholes are villains.