
The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma —
Henry James

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes. —
Mercedes Lackey

DEAL is a
most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here. —
William Cobbett

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men. —
William Shakespeare

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up. —
Jeff Sharlet

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen. —
Michael Caine

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles. —
Dennis Christopher

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. —
Michael Emerson

Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing? —
William Shakespeare

The
most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks. —
Chuck Klosterman

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too. —
Ryan Reynolds

As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told. —
Cinda Williams Chima

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe. —
Peter Earle

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No. —
Clint Eastwood

No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. —
William Shakespeare

I've never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot. —
Lisa Kleypas