Best Scoundrels Quotations
117 Scoundrels quotes by 91 unique authors
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws…
— H. L. Mencken
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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
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
— Jasper Fforde
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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
— Remy de Gourmont
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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
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
— Walter Scott
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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
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I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
— Patrick Ness
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Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.
— Sabrina Jeffries
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I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool,…
— Giacomo Casanova
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You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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
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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all…
— Franz Kafka
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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?
— Sarah MacLean
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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
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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
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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
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Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
— Judith McNaught
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