Top 94 Quotes About Scoundrels
#1. In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.
Sophocles
#2. I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
Bertrand Russell
#3. Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.
Sabrina Jeffries
#4. Oh, Marigold!" Lymond spoke plaintively. "A silken tongue, a heart of cruelty. Don't berate us. We're only poor scoundrels - vagabonds - scraps of society; unlettered and untaught.
Dorothy Dunnett
#5. I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
Diogenes
#6. I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
Franz Grillparzer
#7. Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
Sam Kean
#9. Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. 'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.
Sarah MacLean
#11. They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.
Dean Burk
#12. 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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#13. You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
Giacomo Casanova
#14. Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
Neal Boortz
#15. I am the fierce one who threatens death to scoundrels, Darcy." Fitzwilliam scolded. "You are the one who keeps a cool head and prevents it. That is the order of things.
Diana J. Oaks
#16. Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.
Lysander Spooner
#17. Most men - it is my experience - are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble mediocrities.
Robert Graves
#18. What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme
to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.
Stefan Zweig
#20. Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
Lord Byron
#21. Poor Sonya! What a little gold-mine they've managed to get hold of there! And profit from! Oh yes, they draw their profits from it! And they've got used to it. They wept at first, but now they are used to it. Men are scoundrels, they can get used to anything!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H.L. Mencken
#23. You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.
Rush Limbaugh
#25. The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#26. General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
Toussaint Louverture
#27. There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
Franz Kafka
#29. No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.
John L. Lewis
#31. I wish to Heaven these scoundrels were condemned to be squeezed to death in their own presses. I am told there are not less than a dozen of their papers now published in town, and no wonder that they are obliged to invent lies to find sale for their journals.
Walter Scott
#32. Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
Stendhal
#33. a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.
Jim Dodge
#34. 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.
Michael Crichton
#35. 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.
Philip Wylie
#36. Merlin's eyes narrowed. We require heroes of wit and cleverness, unafraid to foil convention in order to defend a higher allegiance. Battle skills matter not. What we need at this moment, James Potter, are scoundrels with honor.
G. Norman Lippert
#37. A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan
#38. In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#39. More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.
Adolf Hitler
#40. Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler
a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.
James Kirke Paulding
#41. Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side.
Diana Gabaldon
#42. Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
#43. 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
Steve Martin
#44. The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
Naomi Wolf
#45. Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.
Isabella Bird
#46. Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
Jasper Fforde
#47. Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.
Raheel Farooq
#49. Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth ... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.
Charles Dickens
#50. Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?
Sarah MacLean
#51. I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine
#52. Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
Albert Einstein
#53. Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
H.L. Mencken
#54. I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
Patrick Ness
#55. It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
Caleb Carr
#56. Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
William Earl Maxwell
#57. Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
Honore De Balzac
#58. And no hope is greater than that of the Wookiees of Kashyyyk. Heroes of the Rebellion Han Solo and Chewbacca have gathered a team of smugglers and scoundrels to free Kashyyyk from its Imperial slavers once and for all.
Chuck Wendig
#59. 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.
Franz Liszt
#60. Remember too," I added, "that getting rid of scoundrels ends the danger of contamination for the rest of the army. Men are drawn closer to virtue when they see the dishonor that falls on misleaders.
Xenophon
#61. Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth.
Steven Pinker
#63. Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
J.K. Rowling
#64. No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#65. It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time memorizing that would be up to no good purpose.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.
Mary Street
#67. I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
El Greco
#68. 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.
Osamu Dazai
#69. Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
William Batchelder Greene
#70. 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!
Gwyneth Paltrow
#71. Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
Robert Genn
#72. Louisiana was notorious as the last refuge of French whores and scoundrels. By
Ann Jones
#73. My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
Robert A. Heinlein
#74. Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.
Ayn Rand
#75. Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
Jean De La Bruyere
#76. I don't care if we lose the company, miss. But I would care a great deal if we lost the boy.
Ally Carter
#77. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
William Blake
#78. Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
H.L. Mencken
#79. Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.
Doc Holliday
#80. Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
Bob Dylan
#81. Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
George III
#82. To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
Steve Martin
#83. 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.
Bob Dylan
#84. Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
Mason Cooley
#85. Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.
Ira Remsen
#86. It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
Philip James Bailey
#87. He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
Peter O'Toole
#88. There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
Theodore Roosevelt
#89. It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
Nelson Rodrigues
#90. The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.
Ally Carter
#91. An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
William Nordhaus
#92. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
Al-Ma'arri
#93. I'm sure Uncle Eddie won't kill him. He'll probably just maim him a little."
"No," Uncle Eddie said. "I won't."
"Okay," Gabrielle said. "So he'll maim him a lot. But Hale can take it.
Ally Carter
#94. But on the upside, I guess we're getting ready to find out if you really only love me for my jet."
"I might love you for your jet," Gabrielle said, straight-faced.
He smiled a Kat. "What about you?"
"Yeah," Kat said, nodding. "I guess that is the question.
Ally Carter
