Scoundrel Quotes

76 Scoundrel quotes by 58 unique authors

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
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding.… — Umberto Eco
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. — Vladimir Lenin
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. — Douglas MacArthur
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a… — Jose Marti
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. — George Bernard Shaw
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? — W. Clement Stone
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. — Jonathan Swift
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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