James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard?

“I know I don’t deserve this,” he says roughly, “but I’m going to be a selfish bastard and take it. Because I’ve been dying…

— K.C. Lynn

“In another Christmas story, Dale Pearson, evil developer, self-absorbed woman hater, and seemingly unredeemable curmudgeon, might be visited in the night by a series…

— Christopher Moore

Butane is the bastard gas.

— Hank Hill

“You’re one cruel bastard,” she managed to get out. He tsked with his tongue. “Everyone says that.” Then he took hold of her chin…

— Dianna Hardy

“Bastard had the bad manners to die before we were through talking to him.”

— Maya Banks

“You want to change the world? Now is your chance! Go show this bastard what you are made of!”

— Wesley Chu

“Yet Another reason to hate him. The bastard had broken her libido with his wonder penis.”

— Nicolette Day

“Sometimes being a contrary bastard was a real pain.”

— Lori Foster

“Love is a heartless bastard”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Bastard. Mother-crapping bastard.”

— Samantha Towle

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

— George S. Patton

“You going to finish beating yourself up soon? Because I've got a lot of work to catch up on, seeing as I had to…

— Nora Roberts

“Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow”

— George R.R. Martin

“That rotten bastard had let his dick ruin our family, and I was going to cut it off and stick it in my neighbor’s…

— Jennifer Foor

“I’m lucky yes I am don’t argue I’m the luckiest bastard in the world. And: how wonderful it was to have before him the…

— Salman Rushdie