Firsts Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined…

— Ambrose Bierce

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and…

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

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

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

— Bob Dylan

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

— Nelson Rodrigues

Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the…

— Lori Wilde

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

— Boies Penrose

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged…

— Anatoly Chubais

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

— Judith McNaught