villain quotes

How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.

-John Dryden
  A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, 'The  Art of Satire'.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

- SirAlfred Joseph Hitchcock
Quoted in Fran c° ois Truffaut Hitchcock (1968).

One murder made a villain Millions a hero.

- Beilby Porteus
  'Death'.