Scoundrel Quotes
76 quotes by 58 authors
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for…
— William Blake
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has…
— Andrew Ford
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Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
— Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe
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The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like;…
— Abel Hermant
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Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H. L. Mencken
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not…
— Samuel Johnson
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel towards yourself, however…
— Charlie Day
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Boies Penrose
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But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are…
— Martin Van Creveld
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Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
— H. L. Mencken
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
— Roger Scruton
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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
— Murray Kempton
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Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
— George III
Who Wrote These Scoundrel Quotes
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