If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest… — Abel Hermant Copy Share Image
A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Forgive me…I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We pillage, we plunder we rifle and loot, we kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. We extort, we pilfer we… — Pirates Of The Carribean Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject… — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth, rather...that ever crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and narrowest… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor,… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We handed the most important belongings of our people - the railroads and the banks - to aliens who 2000 years ago… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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