Scoundrel Quotes

76 Scoundrel quotes by 58 unique authors

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him. — Ira Remsen
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any… — Nathan Bedford Forrest
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. — Shakti Gawain
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. — Robert A. Heinlein
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached… — Tom Wesselmann
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better… — Doc Holliday
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You… — Yann Martel
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you,… — Martin Van Creveld
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair… — Joseph Murphy
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. — Bob Dylan
I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to… — Honore de Balzac
If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people… — Paul Gauguin
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend… — Nathan Bedford Forrest
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. — Theodore Roosevelt
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he… — George Bernard Shaw
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. — George Galloway

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