"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
— Albert Einstein

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
— Frank Lloyd Wright

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. "
— Oscar Wilde

"When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. "
— Marquise de Merteuil

"The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist."
— Marc Fitten

"You see, I have no intention of breaking down her prodigiousness. I want her to believe in God and virtue and the sanctity of marriage and still not be able to stop herself. I want the excitement of watching her betray everything that's most important to her."
— Vicomte de Valmont

"I've always known that I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own."
— Marquise de Merteuil

"You'll find the shame is like the pain, you only feel it once. "
— Marquise de Merteuil

"No, no, you made an accusation and you must allow me the opportunity to defend myself! Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realize that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say. "
— Vicomte de Valmont

"When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork into the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was afer, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die. "
— Marquise de Merteuil

""Perhpas if I call out to Rat he might hear," said the Mole to himself, but without much hope.
"Rat! Ratty! O Rat, please hear me!" he called out as loudly as he could, holding up his lantern as he did so, waving it about/ But the wind rushed and roared around him even more, and snatched his weak words away the moment they were they were uttered, and scattered them wildly and uselessly as if they were flakes of snow,
Even worse, the light of the lantern began to gutter, and then, quiet suddenly, an extra strong gust of wind blew it out.
"Well then," said the daunted but resolute Mole, putting the spent lantern on the ground, "there's nothing else for it! Frozen rivers are dangerous thinngs, no doubt, but I must try to cross, despite the dangers."
--The Willows in the Winter
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— William Horwood

"Well, I had no choice, did I? I'm a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has every thought of before. And I've succeeded because I've always known I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own. "
— Marquise de Merteuil

"I want you to tell her that I cannot explain why I broke with her as I did. But since then my life has been worth nothing. I pushed the blade in deeper than you just have, my boy. Tell her it is lucky for her now that I have gone. That I'm glad not to have to live without her. Tell her her love was the only real happiness I have ever known."
— Vicomte de Valmont

"The most DANGEROUS thing about her... is that she's BEAUTIFUL... and she KNOWS it ♥♥♥ ^_^ ♥♥♥"
— Winta

"I promised her my eternal love, and I actually thought that I meant it for a couple of hours."
— Vicomte de Valmont

"When it comes to marriage, one man is as good as the next. And even the least accommodating is less trouble than a mother. "
— Marquise de Merteuil