Quotes of Villainy - somelinesforyou

“ Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy; There's nothing level in our cursed natures But direct villainy. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Villain and he be many miles asunder. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seems a saint, when most I play the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown. ”

- Juvenal
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