Top 225 Sinister Quotes & Sayings

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

If anything, technology has brought out the darker and more sinister side of humanity.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.

I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing." "Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing." "Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom." "Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

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

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

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.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

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

I wouldn't mind doing those sinister roles again, but in pictures I will direct myself.

Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.

There are no dark sinister reasons for my resignation.

Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

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

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

Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!

The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and a bloody history.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'

If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Entering public life as a woman - be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist - makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

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.

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

I'm a very sinister person.

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

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

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

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

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

An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.