Antagonist Quotations

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

She's gone out of her way to nurse an image that's more than just an antagonist of Fidel Castro. To her credit, she's been very effective and holds a valued opinion on a diverse range of topics.

Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.

People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

Ideology of assignment of agency has the tendency to target one set of people who have a long history of antagonist belief systems.

We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.