Scoundrels Quotes

Scoundrels Quote of the day

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

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 and then they make you king.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.

Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.