Villain

A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419.

• Now I will show myself
  To have more of the serpent than the dove;
  That is—more knave than fool.
  • Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (c. 1592), Act II, scene 3.

• Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
  • Plutarch, Moralia (2d century), Volume I. Of Bashfulness.

• There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
  But he's an arrant knave.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 124.

• A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats.
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 2, line 14.

• Whip me such honest knaves.
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 1, line 49.

• His nunc præmium est qui recta prava faciunt.
  • Knavery's now its own reward.
  • Terence, Phormio (c. 161 BC), V, 1, 6.