Villain Quotes - Page 21

• I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain?

  Mark Walden

  Book, Hero, Winning

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• Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

  Atul Gawande

  Mistake, Doctors, Doctor Who

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.106, Profile Books

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• I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me. It’s not a difficult thing. A show of faith, let’s call it.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Hands, Soul

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.217, Macmillan

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• And what’s he then that says I play the villain?

  William Shakespeare

  Play

  William Shakespeare (1822). “The school-Shakspeare; or, Plays and scenes from Shakspeare illustr. for the use of schools, with glossarial notes selected from the best annotators by J.R. Pitman. [26 plays & extr. from 9 others & from the sonnets].”, p.293

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• What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Needs, World

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• Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Finals, Pieces

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.173, Delacorte Press

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• ...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.

  Kevin Hearne

  Blood, Consciousness, Pool

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• September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sympathy, Heart, Dark

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan

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• The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

  Lev Grossman

  Real, Hero, Sidekicks

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.16, Penguin

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• Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Fall, Land

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• Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Hero, Cheerful

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• Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

  Sherwood Smith

  Honor, Enough, Take Me

  "Remalna's Children". Book by Sherwood Smith, 2011.

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• Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Men, Doe

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.28, 谷月社

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• I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, Guy, Actors

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• For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

  Angela Carter

  Fun, Cat, Thinking

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• Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Dad, Play

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• Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

  Christopher Paolini

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1021, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.

  Christopher Walken

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Play

  "Sigourney Weaver for 'Tadpole'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

  Jacki Weaver

  Sweet, Play, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

  Robin McKinley

  Track, Roaring, Rope

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• Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

  Brady Udall

  Hero, Believe, Angel

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• Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

  Libba Bray

  Hero, Power, Difficult

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

  Daniel Handler

  Kindness, Giving Up, Integrity

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