"No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting." — Murray Kempton
"No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting."
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24 Quotes by Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for…
- The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being…
- It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
- A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
- A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
- Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but…
- By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which…
- To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point…
- A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
- The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
- The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
- It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long,…