Scurrilous Quotes

#1. Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Charles Krauthammer

#2. When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

Peter Coyote

#3. It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.

Cat Stevens

#4. Apropos this election season, America is the home of:

"Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; and cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers.

Charles Dickens

#5. There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.

Robert Dallek

#6. Gray's teeth ground like millstones. At this rate, they wouldn't need a hanging. The effort required to hold his tongue in the face of these scurrilous falsehoods-it was likely to kill him.

Tessa Dare

#7. You - you insufferable - " "I give you credit for cleverness - " " - scurrilous, despicable - " " - but it is time you returned to where you belong." " - pompous, controlling ass." Unwisely, he smirked. "Now, now, my dear. Language.

Elisa Braden

#8. Like some scurrilous king stripped of his vestiture and driven together with his fool into the wilderness to die.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!

T. J. Thyne

#10. I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

Orlando Bloom

#11. I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Billy Graham

#12. Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#13. Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.

Isabella Bird

#14. The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there.

Cheryl Strayed

#15. There are a lot of good looking men on this planet. It seems like once a week someone will tell me, "I know someone who looks like you" and I don't know what say to them except, "Tell them hi."

Jim Gaffigan

#16. I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

Kim Ki-duk

#17. I got into comics on John Byrne's run of the X-Men and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I got in around X-Men 95, right when it turned to the new X-Men. So that whole family, all those characters are kind of my favorite characters, just the X-Men world.

Timothy Miller

#18. A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

George Washington

#19. ...being average, being normal. That my friend is an Impossibility

Reshma Valliappan

#20. This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore

Brian Andreas