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
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 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
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are… — Franz Liszt 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
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who… — Anonymous 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
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
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans 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
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of… — Adolf Hitler 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
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel… — Charlie Day 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
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject… — Tom Wesselmann 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'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've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
