Scum Quotes

88 quotes by 78 authors

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
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this… — John Dos Passos
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life — Dennis Prager
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. — Duke of Wellington
We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness. — Philip Yancey
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption… — John Bunyan
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral… — W. Somerset Maugham
When you associate with scum, you become scum. — Kathy Wakile
In government, the scum rises to the top. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top. — Unknown Author
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. — Mary Astell
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies. — Michelle Malkin
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth. — Lily Tomlin
We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to… — Vance Havner
We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think. — Nizar Qabbani

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