A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting… — Stefan Zweig 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
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.… — William Faulkner 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
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him. — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind. — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.” — Abu arri Copy Share Image
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were… — Anonymous 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
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform. — Roscoe Conkling Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
![“Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.” quote by Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05b/samuel-johnson-50_against-religion_sir-he-bolingbroke-was-a-scoundrel-and-a_2209441.jpg)
