Scoundrels Quotes · Page 2

Scoundrels are always sociable.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!”

— Michael Crichton

Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.

— William Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

— William Plomer

They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

— Dean Burk

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

— Ambrose Bierce

I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.

— Rush Limbaugh

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

— Honore de Balzac

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

— Remy de Gourmont

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

— H. L. Mencken

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

— J. K. Rowling

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

— Patrick Ness

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

— Diogenes

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

— H. L. Mencken

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire…

— Lysander Spooner

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long…

— Osamu Dazai

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He…

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a…

— Julian Assange

“He's unspoiled. We're all scoundrels, and he's only pretending to be one. He's a pure soul." "Yes, until he runs into temptation…

— Vladimir Stanković

“Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up…

— Diana Gabaldon

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his…

— James Kirke Paulding

Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel…

— Charlie Day

Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about…

— Lord Byron

“...Poor Sonya! What a little gold-mine they've managed to get hold of there! And profit from! Oh yes, they draw their profits…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old…

— Thomas Jefferson

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to…

— Enoch Powell

It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful.…

— Margaret Mitchell

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits…

— H. L. Mencken

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

— El Greco

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

— Anonymous

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

— Anonymous

“Don't be fooled by the white hair, because those scoundrels also get older.”

— Rui Barbosa

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

— Robert Louis Stevenson

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

— Roger Scruton

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

— Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe Robert Walker

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

— Abraham Lincoln

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

— Ayn Rand