Quotes about villain

Tom Hiddleston -

Every villian is a hero in his own mind.

Seanan McGuire - An Artificial Night

I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

Omrane Khuder -

VILLAIN.By Omrane Khuder.Staggering, tripping, stumbling down the tightrope,hastening to be set free.Yearning to be protected by the Superhero,before the Villain’s revulsion ingests me.Misplacing my footing on the tightrope,hands sweltering as the rope is pulled away.Glancing down at the fire below me,the chuckling Villain has won today.Little did I know, it was He setting me free.Little did I know, the tightrope was me.

S.R. Crawford - No Secrets: Remastered

What do you want? What do you want?...To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

S.R. Crawford - No Secrets: Remastered

Don’t you just love meeting new people in new places? It means I can be whoever I want to be. And guess what, sweet’eart? Today…I choose to be your worst nightmare.

Kelly Thompson - The Girl Who Would Be King

I'm afraid of everything I don't know.

Connie Brockway - The Bridal Season

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

S.R. Crawford - No Secrets: Eternity series

What do you want?"To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

S.R. Crawford - No Secrets: Eternity series

…I bet I’ll haunt your dreams tonight. I just wan’ed to paint a picture in your head. I wan’ed you to see me as the monster I can often be. You see, you are what you allow people to know ‘bout you. Truth or lies or some combination of the two, is what makes you who you are. So, you don’t know me yet. But what I need you to know about me for now, is that I can’t be trusted.

Neymat Khan -

This is bullshit, things which are shown to us are totally opposite it is not the Hero with the feelings but the villain who have a reason to destroy the world and not only a reason but a real reason.

Kelly Thompson - The Girl Who Would Be King

I should feel energized and powerful, invulnerable and potent, but all I feel is lost.

Kelly Thompson - The Girl Who Would Be King

Letting go seems like the most powerful thing I could do.And so I do.I just let it all go.And it feels glorious.

Agnes Repplier -

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

T.J. Kirk -

In an evil society a villain is the hero, because only the villain can speak the truth.

Ricky Maye -

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.

Carolyn Lee Adams - Ruthless

I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot. "Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.

Carolyn Lee Adams - Ruthless

When he unleashes on her everything falls together. Like a crick in the neck snapped into place, the boy's brain pops and is put right. It is a beautiful undoing, a beautiful becoming. He doesn't stop to think about it when the punches follow her down to the ground. He doesn't stop to notice when she goes still or when the pool of blood under her head pillows out into a great, liquid heart. He doesn't stop until he's pulled off her and he doesn't start to think again until that night, when he's

Angelica Hopes -

To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters.

Josephine Angelini - Firewalker

Haven’t you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.

Justin Cronin -

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

Mel Brooks -

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Lin-Manuel Miranda -

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.

Christoph Waltz -

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Allison Williams -

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

Cheyanne Young - Overpowered

Tenacity runs thick in the veins of a villain.

Criss Jami -

Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero.

Neymat Khan -

Harvey, Harvey, Harvey, I always wanted to be a hero in my life but i knew people won't let me to be a hero they only let you to be a villain, you know a villain, with a knife because these cheap maggots always want you to hurt them, hurt them badly." the joker said angrily.

Donna Galanti - The Dark Inside

Watch. Anyone who turns away will be considered weak. And the weak shall die. - Adrian

Colin Firth -

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

People love super heroes.  It's true we're  impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn.  But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities.  So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis?  Because of virtue.   A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward.  Think about it.  All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense.  A super hero's

Nuno Roque -

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes.

Rea Lidde - Haven

They’re criminal, but I’m a villain in someone’s untold story.

Jessica Fortunato - Sacrifice

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

Samantha Hunt - Mr. Splitfoot

There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really

Eric Mrozek - Destruction

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

R.J. Lawrence - The Xactilias Project

She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [introduction of character Montparnasse]

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [ introduction of character Montparnasse ]

Josephine Angelini - Firewalker

Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.

Roseanna M. White - A Name Unknown

And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don't even know he's the villain, because he thinks himself the hero in his own story.

Maggie Stiefvater - The Raven King

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.

Michelle Hodkin - The Retribution of Mara Dyer

The ability to heal does not make one good any more than the ability to kill makes one evil. Kill the right people, and you become a hero. Heal the wrongs ones, and you become a villain. It is our choices that define us, not our abilities

Robert Towne - Mission: Impossible

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain.

Ellen Hopkins - Smoke

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

S.G. Night - Dissension: the Second Act of Penance

Why don't you just do it, then?" Racath hissed. "Just kill me. I dare you."Now, I assume you know what this is. You've seen this before in other stories - the part where the disgruntled villain stands over the hero. He is triumphant, the hero now at his mercy. But when commanded to slay him, he hesitates. He lowers his sword. And he says: "I cannot."If you are to take away but one thing from the words I have spoken, let it be this: there is a world of difference between "I Cannot" and "I will no

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Richard Paul Evans - Battle of the Ampere

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future," he said.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

Vironika Tugaleva - The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

Mitch Rowland - Eternity's Reach

We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.

Jessica Majzner - Beyond the Veil

Innocent? Tell me human, who among you is innocent? Who among you has not destroyed without need or hurt without pity? Should a lion ponder his role in thinning the herds? Does he question whether or not he is doing the right thing as he tears into a zebra’s flesh?” he snarled. His next words were slow and measured, and more to himself than to Natalya. “No….he knows only that he has teeth and claws….and an insatiable lust for blood.

William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus

Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,Few come within the compass of my curse,—Wherein I did not some notorious ill,As kill a man, or else devise his death,Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,Set deadly enmity between two friends,Make poor men's cattle break their necks;Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,And bid the owners quench them with their tears.Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their grave

Tom Holland - Lord Of The Dead

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords

A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey

Ahmed Mostafa -

The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.

Dalton Frey - The Darkest Light

Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.

R.D. Shanks - A Reverie of Brothers

These minor, natural flaws did not explain why hers was but the deceptive beauty of the poisoned apple. It was not merely that she was shallow, a creature of simple malice: within her tiny skull a storm raged, hectic, vicious and vengeful. The depths of her character were murky and she herself, had she made the attempt, would struggle to rationalise her behaviour. In morals she was well-versed, for they had been imparted to her through fables as a young child, yet she could find no trace of vill

Ricky Maye -

Maybe our greatest enemy isn’t the evil around us, but the evil inside us.

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