Scum Quotes

88 Scum quotes by 78 unique authors

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. — Edward Abbey
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. — Unknown Author
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in… — Walter E. Williams
My opinion of Christian Zionists? They're scum. But don't tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right now. — Benjamin Netanyahu
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have… — Amy Tan
Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the… — William Shakespeare
I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and… — Ken Bates
The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among… — Stephen Hawking
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It… — Hunter S. Thompson
I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians. — John P. Wheeler III
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York...Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye you lizard… — Bill Hicks
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. — William Shakespeare
I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re… — Dan Savage
We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world. — Richey Edwards
Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts. — Keith Preston
We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum. — John Mortimer
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum — Steve Albini
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets. — Robert De Niro
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can… — J F Powers
When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything… — Cliff Sloan
The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them. — Duke of Wellington
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why… — Ian Shoales
Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals. — John Manley
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This… — W. Somerset Maugham

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