Scoundrel Quotes

76 Scoundrel quotes by 58 unique authors

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. — Remy de Gourmont
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot… — Bob Dylan
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior. — Walter Scott
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will… — William Faulkner
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. — Vladimir Nabokov
Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton… — Lori Wilde
Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a… — Lloyd Alexander
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! — Robert Louis Stevenson
A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you.” -- Kit… — Karen Chance
It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman,… — Margaret Mitchell
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists… — Robert Anton Wilson
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart — Judith McNaught
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. — H. L. Mencken
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel. — Ambrose Bierce
If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but… — Ralph Barton Perry
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — Mark Twain
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. — Joseph de Maistre
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. — Bertrand Russell
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
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. — Heywood Broun
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. — William Blake

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