Then Let Me Be Evil/Quotes

Salarino: Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh: what's that good for?

Shylock: To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

—The Merchant of Venice

Let all Oz be agreed:
I'm wicked through and through.
Since I can not succeed,
Fiyero, saving you.
I promise no good deed

Will I attempt to do again

—Elphaba 's song "No Good Deed", from Wicked

I tried to be good. I really did. But if that's not good enough, fine! Let's get back to basics!

—Harley Quinn, from Batman: The Animated Series

"And therefore, since I cannot prove the lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,

And hate the idle pleasures of these days."

—Richard, from Richard III

You want me to be the bad guy? Fine - now I'm the bad guy...

—Mother Gothel, Tangled

Enough of spending US lives and fortune to defeat then build up other nations just to be hated for it. If we are always going to be accused of being an empire anyway, here's an idea, let's be an Empire.

"I am a rat. And there is no light for rats. There will be no light for me."

—Chiaroscuro, The Tale of Despereaux

Why not, if that's what they think I am I might as well meet their expectations.

—Loki's thoughts, "Home Return", a Thor fanfic

"I am not giving up. I am giving IN. Meredith expects Blood Magic? Then I shall give it to her! Maker help us all..."

—Orsino, Dragon Age II

You who I called brother, How could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted?

Then let my heart be hardened, And never mind how high the cost may grow,

This will still be so: I will never let your people go...

—Ramses, Prince of Egypt

Trixie: Princey ... are you insane?! This ... this isn’t like you. Trixie doesn’t like that DJ either, but don’t you think this is a bit far? Trixie knows you better than anypony. You’re not like this. You’re not THIS bad.

Blueblood: Everypony thinks I am. Why should I bother arguing with them? Might as well go for broke.

—The Vinyl Scratch Tapes

Hell is home to me
Might as well be
I like it here and no one else invited me

— Hell Is Home, Judas Priest