Villain Quotes
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Josephine Angelini](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1395869610i/3406550._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.”
― Firewalker
― Firewalker
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
― Healology
― Healology
![Agnes Repplier](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1407457778i/481293._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Leigh Bardugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1534446099i/4575289._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“There will be, he promised in the darkness, new words written upon his heart. I will make one.”
― The Demon in the Wood
― The Demon in the Wood
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Thomas Paine](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1390497645i/57639._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was the wretch that first began and carried on wars on the score or on the pretence of religion; and under that mask, or that infatuation, committed the most unexampled atrocities that are to be found in the history of any nation. Of which I will state only one instance:
When the Jewish army returned from one of their plundering and murdering excursions, the account goes on as follows (Numbers xxxi. 13): 'And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle; and Moses said unto them, 'Have ye saved all the women alive?' behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore, 'kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the women- children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for Yourselves.'
Among the detestable villains that in any period of the world have disgraced the name of man, it is impossible to find a greater than Moses, if this account be true. Here is an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers, and debauch the daughters.
Let any mother put herself in the situation of those mothers, one child murdered, another destined to violation, and herself in the hands of an executioner: let any daughter put herself in the situation of those daughters, destined as a prey to the murderers of a mother and a brother, and what will be their feelings?
In short, the matters contained in this chapter, as well as in many other parts of the Bible, are too horrid for humanity to read, or for decency to hear.”
― The Age of Reason
When the Jewish army returned from one of their plundering and murdering excursions, the account goes on as follows (Numbers xxxi. 13): 'And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp; and Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle; and Moses said unto them, 'Have ye saved all the women alive?' behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore, 'kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all the women- children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for Yourselves.'
Among the detestable villains that in any period of the world have disgraced the name of man, it is impossible to find a greater than Moses, if this account be true. Here is an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers, and debauch the daughters.
Let any mother put herself in the situation of those mothers, one child murdered, another destined to violation, and herself in the hands of an executioner: let any daughter put herself in the situation of those daughters, destined as a prey to the murderers of a mother and a brother, and what will be their feelings?
In short, the matters contained in this chapter, as well as in many other parts of the Bible, are too horrid for humanity to read, or for decency to hear.”
― The Age of Reason
“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.”
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![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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 graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.”
― Titus Andronicus
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 graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.”
― Titus Andronicus
![Tom Holland](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1223405186i/52292._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Lord of the Dead
― Lord of the Dead
![George R.R. Martin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1649011787i/346732._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“A son for a son, heh. But that's a grandson...and he never was much use." --Walder Frey”
― A Storm of Swords
― A Storm of Swords
![Marcel Allain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212894167i/353300._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“Fantômas! The sound of that name evoked the worst horrors! Fantômas! This terrorist, this über-criminal who has never shrunk from any cruelty, any horror - Fantômas is evil personified! Fantômas! He stops at nothing!”
― The Corpse Who Kills
― The Corpse Who Kills
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Healology
― Healology
![Donna Galanti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1501470406i/5767306._UY200_CR29,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Do you know what I've done? What I would do again if given the chance —to you? What I enjoy doing? I can't stop. It's what I am." - X-10”
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![Christina Henry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1417722044i/3409936._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If I'm a villain, it's because Peter made me one, because Peter needs to be the shining sun that all the world turns around. Peter needed to be a hero, so somebody needed to be a villain.”
― Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
― Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
![Kailey Bright](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1706630612i/22089145._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“My kingdom, you witness Divine judgment in Northbrook. Those spared reveal themselves allegiant to our cause. Those who oppose us are returned to their creator.”
― Unity
― Unity
![Kailey Bright](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1706630612i/22089145._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“I wished I could separate him out. Make him two different people. One I could despise with my entire being and one I could support and comfort. If he wasn’t one person, I might have understood him better.”
― Unity
― Unity
![Kailey Bright](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1706630612i/22089145._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“The sun shone through the stained glass windows and illuminated him in all the colors of the world. All the Gifts he has stolen for himself.”
― Unity
― Unity
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