Scoundrels Quotes · Page 3

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

— Anonymous

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

— Franz Grillparzer

Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

— Sabrina Jeffries

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.

— Ira Remsen

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

— Robert A. Heinlein

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

— Steve Martin

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

— Stendhal

“The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long…

— Osamu Dazai

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have…

— Joseph Addison

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

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire…

— Lysander Spooner

But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino…

— Sarah MacLean

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships…

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we…

— Giacomo Casanova

Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old…

— Thomas Jefferson

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to…

— Enoch Powell

Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel…

— Charlie Day

I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom,…

— Anonymous

Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his…

— James Kirke Paulding

“...Poor Sonya! What a little gold-mine they've managed to get hold of there! And profit from! Oh yes, they draw their profits…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

— Robert A. Heinlein

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

— George III

“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.”

— Abu arri

“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

— Erica Jong

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

— Peter O'Toole

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

— Vladimir Nabokov

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a…

— Horace

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

— Emmett Tyrrell

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

— Lillian Hellman

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

— William Blake

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

— Franz Kafka

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

— Robert Genn

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by…

— Albert Einstein

More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of…

— Adolf Hitler