Ruffian Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in… — John Brown
Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the… — William Shakespeare
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. — Thomas Paine
Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair. — William Ernest Henley
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion.Â All the neglect and bad education… — Charles Loring Brace
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old… — James Hillman
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. — Samuel Johnson
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an… — Ansen Dibell
There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey. — Samuel Johnson
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious… — Lysander Spooner
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. — William Goldman
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in… — Isabel Allende
... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses… — Percy Williams Bridgman
Ive never been like Zac Efron. I am a bit of an asshole. I have a dark side. Im a bit of a ruffian. Ive… — Shia Labeouf

Who Wrote These Ruffian Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Ruffian Quotes as follows: