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
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little… — Eduardo Galeano 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
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer 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
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
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
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
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels. — Diogenes 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
40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be… — Anatoly Chubais 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
Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked… — Lori Wilde 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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. — El Greco 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
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
