TV Series: 50 Unforgettable Female Villain Quotes

Love is supposed to dignify us. Exalt us. How can it be love, if all it does is make you lonely and corrupt?Alice Morgan, (to John), Luther, S1.Ep1

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones, S1.Ep7: You Win or You Die

They say when a parent dies, a child feels his own mortality. But when a child dies, it’s immortality that a parent loses.Constance Langdon, American Horror Story, S1.Ep5: Halloween: Part 2

Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan.Gillian Darmody, Boardwalk Empire, S2.Ep8: Two Boats and a Lifeguard

We’re all pathological in our own ways. You choose the version of the truth that suits you best and pursue it pathologically. Everybody decides their own versions of the truth.Freddie Lounds, Hannibal, S1.Ep9: Trou Normand

Vulnerability is a liability. No place for it in this life.Gemma Teller Morrow, Sons of Anarchy, S6.Ep13: A Mother's Work

You’ve got to stand up for yourself in life. You can’t let the world run over you.Norma Louise Bates, Bates Motel, S2.Ep1: Gone But Not Forgotten

“Envy” is just another word for “ambition.”Zelena, Once Upon a Time, S3.Ep18: Bleeding Through

All problems are boring until they’re your own.Galina Reznikov, Orange Is the New Black, S2.Ep5: Low Self Esteem City

Your appearance can be a weapon, as powerful as any knife or gun.Barbara Kean, Gotham, S1.Ep17: Red Hood

It is the clever man who plays the fool. And a foolish woman who does not recognize it.Madame Gao, Daredevil, S1.Ep8: Shadows in the Glass

Hope is a carrot easily dangled in front of the desperate.Fish Mooney, Gotham, S1.Ep18: Everyone Has a Cobblepot

There’s only one war. Life against death.Melisandre, Game of Thrones, S5.Ep4: Sons of the Harpy

Play with your food and you give it the opportunity to bite back.Alana Bloom, (to Mason), Hannibal, S3.Ep7: Digestivo

When you are what I am, you don’t feel things the way normal humans do. An emotion is like a flavor in my mouth. I can taste it. Joy tastes like strawberries. Hate is like ice chips in a martini. And love is… rosewater. I enjoy them all except for one. Betrayal. That has the taste of the char on a piece of burnt meat.Countess Elizabeth, American Horror Story, S5Ep.6: Room 33

We all got a role to play. You need to take my example. Be a leader. This is our time. No such thing as men’s work, women’s work anymore.Floyd Gerhardt, Fargo, S2.Ep6: Rhinoceros

The appearance of weakness is the greatest advantage.The Widow, Into the Badlands, S1.Ep2: Fist Like a Bullet

Liberty is a b**ch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.Lily, Penny Dreadful, S3.Ep3: Good and Evil Braided Be

Posture is self-respect, and if you don’t have it, no one else will give it to you.Evil Queen, Once Upon a Time, S6.Ep3: The Other Shoe

The thing about war is, it only works if both sides believe they’re the good guys.Alexandra, The Defenders, S1.Ep6: Ashes, Ashes

Belief is a weed. It grows wild and deep. If you want to destroy it for good, you have to uproot it.Gothel, Once Upon a Time, S7.Ep5: Greenbacks

You should never tell a psychopath they are a psychopath. It upsets them.Villanelle, Killing Eve, S1.Ep5: I Have a Thing About Bathrooms

Faith is a story of order humans impose on the chaos of their existence so their soft brains can bear it.Niska, Humans, S3.Ep2

For some people, their work is their passion, if you’re truly blessed.Serena Joy, The Handmaid's Tale, S2.Ep9: Smart Power

You can’t plant a seed without getting your hands dirty.Mariah Dillard, Luke Cage, S2.Ep5: All Souled Out

It’s the first law of power. Those who can, s*** on others. Those who can’t, clean it up.Helen Pierce, (to Marty), Ozark, S2.Ep9: The Badger

The people that know us best, know best how to hurt us.Claire Underwood, House of Cards, S6.Ep6: Chapter 71

War. Such a fascinating concept. A temporary salve for a permanent human flaw.The Handler, The Umbrella Academy, S1.Ep6: The Day That Wasn't

Read your history books. That is the only way that you can build a nation.Reeva Payge, (Reed Strucker: You can't build a nation on the murder of innocent people.), The Gifted, S2.Ep16: oMens

When your life unfolds into a nightmare, you pray your dreams will take you elsewhere.Alice, Batwoman, S1.Ep5: Mine Is a Long and a Sad Tale

We’ve all had to wear different masks at different times.Alpha, The Walking Dead, S10.Ep5: What It Always Is

Our origins don’t define us. It’s what we do with what we have.Marisa Coulter, His Dark Materials, S1.Ep2: The Idea of the North

We’re all a little broken. Yet some pieces still manage to fit together.Love Quinn, You, S2.Ep3: What Are Friends For?

Quit parking in the crippled spot. What you got ain’t a disability. Just poor f***ing judgment.Ruth Langmore, (to Frank Jr.), Ozark, S3.Ep5: It Came from Michoacán

The biggest enemy of crime isn’t the police. It’s the rush.Alicia Sierra, Money Heist, S4.Ep3: Lección de anatomía

Free will does exist. It’s just f***ing hard.Dolores Abernathy, (to Caleb), Westworld, S3.Ep8: Crisis Theory

You can’t win the whole country anymore. No one can. So why are you even trying? You don’t need 50 million people to love you. You need 5 million people f***ing pi**ed. Emotion sells, anger sells.Stormfront, (to Homelander), The Boys, S2.Ep4: Nothing Like It in the World

We had a saying in the Corps, “Save one life, and you’re a hero. Save 100 lives… well, then you’re a nurse.”Mildred Ratched, Ratched, S1.Ep1: Pilot

Memory’s like a card catalog but the cards are all mixed up.Virginia, Fear the Walking Dead, S6.Ep2: Welcome to the Club

The only person you can rely on is yourself.Fennec Shand, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, S1.Ep9: Bounty Lost

You have to fight for everything they won’t give you. Your enemies, yes, but especially your friends. When they say you’re weak, it’s because they don’t understand how even the tiniest measure of strength can fill an entire universe.Evil-Lyn, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, S1.Ep4: Land of the Dead

You learn. You fail. Learn more. Fail more. And don’t let anyone outwork you. Ever.Beth Dutton, (to Carter), Yellowstone, S4.Ep3: All I See Is You

You can think what you want. Opinion is the wilderness between knowledge and ignorance.Misty Quigley (teen), Yellowjackets, S1.Ep2: F Sharp

The surest way to tame a prisoner is to let him believe he is free.Harmony Cobel, (quoting Kier), Severance, S1.Ep5: The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design

How sweetly the fox speaks when it’s been cornered by the hounds.Alicent Hightower, House of the Dragon, S1.Ep6: The Princess and the Queen

I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation.Wednesday Addams, Wednesday, S1.Ep1: Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe

Lorraine Lyon: You want freedom with no responsibility? Son, there is only one person on Earth who gets that deal.
Roy Tillman: The president?
Lorraine Lyon: A baby.Lorraine Lyon, Fargo, S5.Ep5: The Tiger

The gods want you to believe that, that they are infallible. But they only want what all bullies want. They want us to blame ourselves for their own shortcomings.Medusa, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, S1.Ep3: We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium

There are always ways to get in the game if you know which pieces to play.Azula, Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024), S1.Ep3: Omashu

What good is living forever if you’re just going to wither away?Esther Finch, Dead Boy Detectives, S1.Ep5: The Case of the Two Dead Dragons