Villians Quotes

“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, Sunshine

“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What came to mind was a dinosaur. A tiny velociraptor, no bigger than her thumb.
Relatively small, bur surprisingly ferocious.
When the hasty drawing was finished, he looked into Nova's face, but she was staring at the creature inked onto her palm. "He's adorable," she murmured.
He swallowed. "Here we go," he said swirling the pad of his finger over the drawing.
The creature roared to life...”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We’re the villains you root for in the story.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Return to the Isle of the Lost

“Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)”
― William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“The problem with heroes and villains is that it’s not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.”
― Jessica Meats, Omega Rising

“Now I am in control!" He followed this statement with a burst of laughter that showed the owner had done a fair share of gloating in his time, and had the basics down pat.”
― Phil Foglio, Agatha H and the Airship City

“The best villians make you doubt.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“We like to see our enemies as fairy-tale villains, thoroughly wicked. But Tata sees nuances. He sees people, not causes or countries.

It's the right way of looking at the world, I know. But unpopular.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival

“How clever of you to figure that out,' said a voice at the top of the stairs, and Violet, and Klaus were so surprised they almost dropped the lamp. It was Stephano, or, if you prefer, it was Count Olaf. It was the bad guy.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“Villains often come with pretty faces.”
― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

“Yeah, well, what are you going to teach me next...how to take over the world?” I asked sarcastically.

“Good idea!” Sampson exclaimed a little too enthusiastically.

“No, bad idea!” I stressed.

“See? You are learning,” Sampson said.”
― Jennifer Priester

“Skulls" said Lady Lamorna. "Definitely skulls. Rows and rows of dear little skulls, sewn all along the hem.”
― Vivian French, The Robe of Skulls

“This was the kind of woman she understood, a woman after her own cold heart.”
― Vivian French, The Robe of Skulls

“a wise man once said.. "Villians, they're never made, villians, their created by their past, by what people did to them, and heroes, they don't want to 'stop' villians, they want to help them, but the villians, they don't want it, they want everyone to suffer just like they did.”
― Anonymous person

“That's my point. Almost all of us have been hurt by our families, but look at us now, making families of our own, with people we choose to love,”
― Serena Valentino, Fire & Fate

“Yes, very good,” sang Governor Evrard, as if he had successfully explained that two and two made four.”
― Ash Gray, The Thieves of Nottica

“The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the worst of her whole life.”
― Vivian French, The Robe of Skulls

“Those who read stories could recognize a villain when they saw one.”
― Millie Florence, Apprentice Alliance