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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
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
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. — Jasper Fforde
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
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
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. — Patrick Ness
Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind. — Sabrina Jeffries
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
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
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
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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
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
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! — Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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

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