Antagonist Quotes - Page 2

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Argument, Comprehension, Bounds

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Benjamin Disraeli (1982). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837”

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• It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.

  Michelle Richmond

  Character, Thinking, Stories

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

  William Atherton

  Creative

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

  Epictetus

  Envy, Fortunate

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

  Franz Kafka

  Courage, Real, Gains

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Literature, Felt

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.306, Wordsworth Editions

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• Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Agency, Silence

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.85, Penguin

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• There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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

  Thomas Paine

  Fog, Mystery, Invention

  Thomas Paine (1818). “The theological works of Thomas Paine”, p.46

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• He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Play, Psychology, Too Much

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.255, Courier Corporation

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• Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Tyrants, Mind

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.

  Vivian Gornick

  Believe, Unfaithful, Realizing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Loyalty, Feelings, Perception

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 45, 1930.

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• [Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

  James Nicoll

  Book, Hero, Writing

  Usenet article <efprv2$bpa$1@reader1.panix.com>, 2006.

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• Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Allies

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Style, Rivals

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.15

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• In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

  Henry Fielding

  Country, Fighting, Pieces

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• Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.

  Wernher von Braun

  Men, Trying, Creation

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Animal, Safety, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. 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.

  Thomas Paine

  Light, Fog, Religion

  Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

  Dorothea Brande

  Women, Feelings, Triumph

  Dorothea Brande (2013). “Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!”, p.70, Penguin

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• The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national; and finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal, nor wholly national.

  James Madison

  Government, Foundation, Ordinary

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.179

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Errors, Politics, Truth Is

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Simple, Evil

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Enemy, Enthusiasm

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.260

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