Quote by Murray Kempton Download Open image “No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.” — Murray Kempton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel. — Horace Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in every scoundrel’s life when he catches a glimpse of what he might have been. Only if he catches it… — Diana Holquist Copy Share Image
That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
