Quotes About The Scum Of The Earth

#1. In every society, the rich are the scum of the earth.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. You're a nice girl, Dovie. You should be anywhere but here with anyone but me. This shit with Race and Novak, your old man being the scum of the earth . . . you deserve so much more than all of it. Your life should look different than this, and sooner or later you're going to hate me.

Jay Crownover

#4. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)

Eddie Huang

#5. The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

Duke Of Wellington

#6. Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Duke Of Wellington

#7. Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

Buzz Osborne

#8. The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Lily Tomlin

#9. Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

Craig Bruce

#10. The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

Roger Ross Williams

#12. I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.

Ken Bates

#13. You saw where I come from. No matter what I do or how I act, I'll always be the scum of the earth. I am who I am, and there's nothing you or anybody else can do to change that.

Collette West

#14. I started to develop a penchant for the odd hot foil of smack. After all those years of calling junkies 'the scum of the earth', I had now fallen by the wayside and had become a junkie myself!

Stephen Richards

#15. You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

Alan Moore

#16. The scum of the earth ... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

Duke Of Wellington

#17. The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

Manasa Rao

#19. Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

Christopher Hitchens

#20. I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

J. F. Powers

#21. The Earth is deep, and right to the heart it's alive. We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.

Orson Scott Card

#22. You go back," Jack said. "And you catch the scum who did you." "Back?" I said. "Back to ... " "Earth, yeah," Jack said. "Chicago." He closed the folder and dropped it into his out-box. "You gotta find out who killed you." I arched an eyebrow at him. "You're kidding.

Jim Butcher

#23. A more down-to-earth project run by the Soviets had determined that eight square meters of algae - an expanse of pond scum about the size of two ping-pong tables - was needed to keep a single human supplied with oxygen.

Neal Stephenson

#24. Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

Kurt Vonnegut