Sinister Motives Quotes

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Those who make laws and prescribe penalties are also men subject to temptations, and may also miscarry through ignorance, heedlessness, or sinister respects.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.

When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying to refute the other side, they label their opponents' position evil, attribute sinister motives to its adherents, and charge that its proponents are encouraging violence.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

Many of our statesmen most distinguished for talent and patriotism have been at one time or other of their political career on both sides of each of the most warmly disputed questions forces upon us the inference that the errors, if errors there were, are attributable to the intrinsic difficulty in many instances of ascertaining the intentions of the framers of the Constitution rather than the influence of any sinister or unpatriotic motive.

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it becomes some sort of mustache-twirling caricature!

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

Everything about playing a villain is appealing to me.

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil.