Blackguard Quotes

#1. Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

Patricia Briggs

#3. Jamie was real, alright, more real than anything had ever been to me, even Frank and my life in 1945. Jamie, tender lover and perfidious blackguard.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician.

Jennifer Ashley

#7. Let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything!

William Gibson

#8. A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. [The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

Charles R. Jackson

#11. Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Huxley

#13. Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

D.T. Suzuki

#14. It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people ...

Natalie Portman

#15. Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

Orison Swett Marden

#16. Our prayers don't die when we do. God answers them forever.

Mark Batterson

#17. The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

Larry Ellison

#18. From birth to death we are alone ...

Enid Bagnold

#19. Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness. They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves.

Parker J. Palmer

#20. A good story makes you thankful to be alive because it reminds you that while sometimes painful, life is indeed beautiful and even magical.

Donald Miller