"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees……" — Ambrose Bierce
"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
More Blackguard Quotes
- Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to… — Edgar Allan Poe
- A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. — Edgar Allan Poe
- I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say,… — George Bernard Shaw
- Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but… — Patricia Briggs
- The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life… — Catherynne M. Valente