Sinister Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old sinister quotes, sinister sayings, and sinister proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Prepared a sinister mate / For her — so gaily great — / A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate. Thomas Hardy
Burnt black by strange decay / Their sinister faces lie, / The lid over each eye, / The grass and coloured clay / More motion have than they, / Joined to the great sunk silences. Isaac Rosenberg
On my wall hangs a Japanese carving, / The mask of an evil demon, decorated with gold lacquer. / Sympathetically I observe / The swollen veins of the forehead, indicating / What a strain it is to be evil. Bertolt Brecht
"Till heavily parts a sinister chasm, a grisly jaw, whose verges / soon, / Slowly and ominously filled by the on-coming plenilune, / Supportlessly congest with fire, * and suddenly spit forth the moon: — " Francis Thompson
I found [life] to be a revolting and repellent tragedy, and that the sinister occasion of the great catastrophe, sinister in its concentration of aim and intensity of narrowed will-power, was yourself stripped of that mask of joy and pleasure by which you, no less than I, had been deceived and led astray. Oscar Wilde
How evil he looked! The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain. Oscar Wilde
He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption, and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so; and that, of the lives that had crossed his own, it had been the fairest and the most full of promise that he had brought to shame. Oscar Wilde
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. John Milton
To recognize that there are sinister elements who are using their protest to attack the security forces. Mo Mowlam
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. Charles W. Chesnutt
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. Thomas Ligotti
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. William Blake
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid. Hermann Hesse
My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. Bret Easton Ellis
More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Glenn Cook
People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us… It’s people who claim that they’re good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. Gregory Maguire
Man is the cruelest animal. Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. Niccolò Machiavelli
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. Lysander Spooner
When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. Euripides
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Adlai Stevenson II
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. Adolf Hitler