What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy. — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour Copy Share Image
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a… — Horace Copy Share Image
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement. — Nelson Rodrigues Copy Share Image
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful… — African Spir Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him. — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind. — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.” — Abu arri Copy Share Image
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform. — Roscoe Conkling Copy Share Image
