Becoming Quote by Bertrand Russell

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

— Nelson Rodrigues

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

— Franz Kafka

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

— Murray Kempton

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I…

— Bertrand Russell

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit…

— John Clare

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

— Evelyn Waugh

Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it.

— Ekta Kapoor

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't…

— Nick Frost

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at…

— Mike Tyson

I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would…

— William Shakespeare

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life....…

— James Boswell