Antagonist Quotes

Antagonist Quote of the day

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

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

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.

In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

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

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

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.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.

It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

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

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

You -have- to love your monster.

Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way

Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.

Behind every villain is a truth, whether it be perceived or actual.

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.