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Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband. - Charles Caleb Colton Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. - Charles Caleb Colton Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. - Oliver Goldsmith The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy; a still rabies is more dangerous than the paroxysms of a fever. Fear the boisterous savage of passion less than the sedately grinning villain. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Why here's a villain, Able to corrupt a thousand by example. - Philip Massinger Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. - Alexander Pope, Temple of Fame (l. 410) A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame. - William Shakespeare He hath out-villained villainy so far, that the rarity redeems him. - William Shakespeare The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him. - William Shakespeare The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. - William Shakespeare Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him I may avoid him. - William Shakespeare O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii) Villain and he be many miles asunder. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, v) The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy; There's nothing level in our cursed natures But direct villainy. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii) 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 Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, iii)
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