Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are…

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

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

— Jasper Fforde

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

— Diogenes

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

— Judith McNaught

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

— Horace

Forgive me…I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you…

— Lloyd Alexander

It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t…

— Caleb Carr

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into…

— Franz Grillparzer

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge…

— Colson Whitehead

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect…

— Honore de Balzac

“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 for the…

— Vladimir Stanković

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our…

— Eduardo Galeano

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer