The Blackguard Quotes

#1. [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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

Matthew Perry

#4. Here's the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett - although, considering what you're marrying into, I'm not certain that's much of an incentive.
Dallas to Amy

Cindy Gerard

#5. 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

#6. But as they say, love is blind.

Melissa De La Cruz

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. Begging for help never gets you any.

George R R Martin

#11. 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

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

William Gibson

#13. 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

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

Ambrose Bierce

#15. The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

Charles Stross

#16. 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

#17. Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

Paulo Coelho

#18. We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.

Mark Sanford

#19. Lifelong pain, an unwanted pregnancy, and even death may be the reward for such a brief window of pleasure. What a foolish gamble!

James C. Dobson

#20. You have, to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden, - why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#21. Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.

Peter Gould