Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control… — Doc Holliday 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
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have… — Joseph Addison 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
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
“I learned that I knew it (there are some things in life, you knew before you could put the words to them,… — Mark Vaughan Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman 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