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Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I'm interested in villainy. -- Jonathan Frid
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. -- Washington Irving
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. -- Oliver Goldsmith
We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime. -- Roger Daltrey
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. -- James Otis
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man. -- Edward Zwick
The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth] -- Alan Moore
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. -- Alexander Pope
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. -- Mark Twain
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame. -- William Shakespeare
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. -- H. L. Mencken
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. -- William Shakespeare
I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight But where her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety. -- William Shakespeare
The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still. -- Henry George
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly. -- Samuel Johnson
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom. -- Saint Augustine
The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a god of love to men, they will make use of him to sanctify their villainies and their crimes "for the good fight" as well as the massacres en masse, blessing priests leading the way. -- Francois Cavanna
The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, ... I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest. -- James Spader
The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I -- Alexander Pope
I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it. -- Kevin Spacey
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. -- Sophocles
Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. -- John Rhys-Davies
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. -- Matt Taibbi
I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.' -- Anthony Zerbe
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. -- Samuel Johnson
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it. -- Iain Pears
Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears. -- William Shakespeare
I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it. -- Kevin Spacey
No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. -- William Shakespeare
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy. -- Franz Grillparzer
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. -- Sophocles
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. -- George Lucas
The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy. -- Harry Belafonte
Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. -- Samuel Johnson
For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. -- Bertolt Brecht
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies. -- William Shakespeare
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is. -- Vernor Vinge

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