Villain with Good Publicity/Quotes

The court fell in love with her.
The media fell in lover with her.
The entire damn nation fell in love with her.
[...]

The day the judge declared her innocent, the entire nation celebrated like it was a damn holiday.

My favorite villain so far has been an elf, immortal, long-lived, total sociopath. She's seen civilizations, entire epochs of civilization, rise and fall.
For all of this time, she's been trying to bring one person back to life, and failing, because civilization keeps destroying itself before there are enough people alive for her to sacrifice to cast the damn spell. Every year that passes, more and more lives are required.
So each time she tries harder and harder to bring about world peace, a utopia, where people breed in the tens of billions, along lines she sets down, so that she can sacrifice them all at once to bring her boyfriend back to life.

To all outward appearances, she's basically a living saint, she's a divine messenger. She invented science, she gave humans fire, agriculture, medicine, culture. She is the mother of all civilization. But few people know that she only birthed this child with the express intention of killing it as soon as it reaches maturity.

—/tg/

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables--meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;

At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.

—Hamlet, Hamlet

No one with a good public reputation is actually good, Orgullo. They’re just charlatans skilled at making themselves look good. Most people are easily fooled, so we can get away with it.

—Akira Hidaka, Ultimo

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

—2 Corinthians 11:14

I can't stop the horrible respect people have for me.

—Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock

What? And spoil three years of good public relations? I have the Americans believing I am a nice guy. On some of their polls, I'm more popular than their President!

—"Gorbachev", The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad