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Villainy: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics,— POPE — Temple of Fame. L. 410.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil, p. Richard III. Act Sc. 3. L. 336. O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd; Treachery! seek it out.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 322.

The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique; There's nothing level in our cursed natures, But direct villainy.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 17.

Villain and he be many miles asunder. S.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 82.