William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

We like our villains to be evil from head to toe.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

… a damnable villain

Being evil is easy.

I'm a villain at heart. I'm a born villain.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad.

I'm a really evil person on TV! It's way more fun to be the bad guy.

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.

I was a no-good bastard.

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

Sometimes I feel evil!

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

I am the evil seed.