Sinister Quotes

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

Enemy, Friend, Person

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

Courage, Character, Rest

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence

Humor, God, True

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
Robert Plant

Time, Rock, Special

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
Alexander McQueen

Business, Sadness, Person

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

Someone, May, Through

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Funny, Work, Forget

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

Cool, Bad, Human

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

Give, Times, Modern

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!
Robert Crumb

Blame, After, Away

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

Feelings, Himself, Ability

True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.
Nicholson Baker

Time, Great, True

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

Between, Write, Space

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.
Michael Shannon

Life, Crazy, Feeling

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

Problems, Mysterious, Source

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.
Robert B. Laughlin

Computers, Through, Else

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
Jung Chang

Writing, Thought, While

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

Life, Nothing, Private

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Sinister Definition

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us