Best Scoundrels Quotes
117 Scoundrels quotes by 91 unique authors
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
— Roger Scruton
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It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve…
— Caleb Carr
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I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
— Franz Grillparzer
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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
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Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.
— Ira Remsen
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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
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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
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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
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No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
— Shakti Gawain
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Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
— Georges Danton
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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
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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
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To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at…
— Ronald Rolheiser
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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both…
— Philip Wylie
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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
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My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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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
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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Scoundrels are always sociable.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
— Bob Dylan
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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
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