“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.” — Abu arri 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
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and… — William Batchelder Greene 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
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
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
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
Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation.… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated,… — Joseph Murphy 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
It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand,… — Sherman Skolnick 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
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
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
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
“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
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
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. — Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres Copy Share Image
