Sinister Quotes

A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I'm not much of a giggler unless I've done something sinister. — Penny Reid

It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister; — Robert Louis Stevenson

What have you done to yourself? You look different - sort of sinister.'

'Good. I feel sinister. — Jamie Delano

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. — Learned Hand

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. — Emile Souvestre

My desire turns to something heady and more sinister. Fear. — Marata Eros

I'm a very sinister person. — Claire Denis

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced. — Winston Churchill

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot. — Donald Trump

His vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster. — Patricia Hamill

Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education. — Ben Aaronovitch

She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. — Thomas Hardy

He had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All — Ernest Hemingway,

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent? — Marilyn Frye

His smile, he knew, was now lopsided and somewhat sinister, as if one half of him were amused while the other unimpressed by the same joke. — Chris Womersley

As one becomes aware of the decline of violence, the world begins to look different. The past seems less innocent; the present less sinister. — Steven Pinker

There was a malevolence about them, a sinister feel as their eyes locked onto us and didn't let go. — Richelle Mead

Great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. — H.P. Lovecraft

He stays in the shadows, refusing to let me see him, but I can almost imagine that sinister smile and the intensity in those aqua eyes. — S.L. Jennings

There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician! — Robert Anthony Kerr

Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain. — Lemony Snicket

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. — Doug MacLeod

The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!'
And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why? — Thomas Hardy

I know now, like drumbeats. Portentous, and a little sinister, like tympani strikes at the start of a gloomy symphony. Shostakovich, maybe. — Lee Child

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. — Ernest Hemingway,

Writers should be orderly and predictable in their lives, so that they can be ferocious and sinister in their work. — Flaubert-G

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed. — Dick Cavett

*Rose petals, doves, and the sinister cherubs make a big reappearance, shouting, "Ready. Aim. Fire."* — Anne Eliot

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side. — Lukas Haas

Most field trips contain sinister plots. — Lemony Snicket

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You're a sinister little shit, aren't you?" Victra asks.
"I'm Gold, bitch. What'd you expect? Warm milk and cookies just because I'm pocket sized? — Pierce Brown

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. — Cyril Connolly

The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. — Abraham Lincoln

We creatives are allowed to be slightly sinister — T.S. Easton

Maximum Rocknroll
didn't have a map section.
How was I supposed to know
that Berkeley was not
a neighborhood of San Francisco? — Bucky Sinister

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas. — Mark Steyn

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does. — Edward Young

The Sinister 1 freak me out, so creeepy so many mysteries, so many puzzles, so many reverses. This just freak me out... — Deyth Banger

Sweet smile is half again as sinister as her sister's razor. Beside her is an Olympic Knight, the Storm Knight — Pierce Brown

Where is he?' said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure. — Toba Beta

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished. — Michael Cadnum

I roofied you because I wanted you naked ... and afraid, Tyler says again in a sinister voice — Tara Sivec

Land be without it and its dwellers? The sinister Mr. Zonk and his — Starrie Sky

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite ... — J.M. Barrie

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. — Claudia Black

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin. — Dominic Smith

If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always! — Israelmore Ayivor

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman. — Anais Nin

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister. — Scott Westerfeld

He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding. — J.M. Barrie

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire. — Patti Smith

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. — W.C. Fields

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. — Hermann Hesse

Like the vampire Lothaire, the Enemy of Old, with his white-blond hair and eerily sinister hotness. — Kresley Cole

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer. — Paul Theroux

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister. — Marian Keyes

No sign, so far, of anything sinister - but I live in hope. — Agatha Christie

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?
A: Peanut shells on the floor. — Bucky Sinister

its eyelids half lowered, a look I found particularly sinister. — A.D. Koboah

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. — Agnes De Mille

sinister in the air, as if the arrival — Margaret Addison

Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them! — Sophie Turner

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. — Carol Ann Duffy

[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely. — Andrew Solomon

There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work. — G.K. Chesterton

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet. — Steven Franssen

It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way. — Claire Messud

When James Wan is out there the horror is real, no doubt about that Check out for own proof if you have guts Sinister 1,2... Insidious 1,2... — Deyth Banger

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend — William Blake

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. — John Mayer

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science. — Winston Churchill

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. — Victor Garber

Nicholas, dressed in black and trailing them like a sinister storm cloud, had a dry little preoccupied smile. — Martha Wells

What truly captivated Rachael were her eyes - wide, deer-like, yet hauntingly sinister green with flecks of gold dancing in silent mirth. — Deidre Huesmann

No man is a sinister brooding presence to his mother, — Miranda Neville

Laughter can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound,and also the most sinister and animalistic one. — Christopher Hitchens

Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter. — Bucky Sinister

She didn't need 'little chunks of home'. They were like slightly sinister postcards from old enemies. — Lisa Jewell

Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart. — Nike Thaddeus

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me. — MyAnna Buring

The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest. — David Guterson

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it's violation of the soul. — Rachel Abbott

I turned. Tall, Dark, and Sinister was rapidly approaching. — MaryJanice Davidson

Only sick music makes money today. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some sinister secret lat buried in the heart of the graveyard ! — Rajib Mukherjee

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody. — Robert Breault

Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped. — David Millar

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. — J.G. Ballard

There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation. — Mike Hargrove

(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag ... a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag ... I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed. — Christopher Hitchens

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister. — Christopher Hitchens

A sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage. — Anne Bosworth Greene

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there. — Bucky Sinister