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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling, and he'd beaten down the riverman to a decent price for conveying himself and Anvar to Lankarn. -- Ian Livingstone
Any man over forty is a scoundrel. -- George Bernard Shaw
Do not waste your pity on a scamp. -- Aesop
Uh, hello? I prefer recently reformed promiscuous reprobate. I'm just sayin', if we're gonna name call, let's just make sure we get 'em straight -- Jenn Cooksey
Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth. -- Joel Mcdonald
They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half. -- Otto Von Bismarck
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. -- Antoinette Du Ligier De La Garde Deshoulieres
If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist! -- Paul Gauguin
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. -- Samuel Johnson
He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn't even a mercenary have morals? That's the textbook definition of a whore! -- Nadia Scrieva
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Daughter stealer. -- Sharon Cameron
A slut born out of masculine persuasion. -- Jettie Woodruff
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security. -- John Locke
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores -- Patrick Rothfuss
A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice. -- Jake Roberts
Compare two people, one of whom has been crippled by an accident, the other by an early environmental history which makes him lazy and, when criticized, mean. Both cause great inconvenience to others, but one dies a martyr, the other a scoundrel. -- B.f. Skinner
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool! -- Stephenie Meyer
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel! -- Michael Crichton
His unashamed, avenging queen. -- Sarah Maclean
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation. -- Mason Cooley
Cocksucker! You're a fucking Cocksucker, Grif! My Cocksucker! -- Joseph Lance Tonlet
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. -- Bob Dylan
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. -- Peter Coyote
Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable. -- J.g. Holland
a virtuous person, -- David Eagleman
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
There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
You, sir, are a scoundrel. As if he'd heard her thought, he glanced her way. Their gazes held, a pair of miscreants recognizing each other in a roomful of upstanding people. -- Sherry Thomas
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. -- George Crabbe
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. -- Patrick Ness
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor. -- Saint Augustine
I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else. -- Eddie Van Halen
Mercy, who breaks God's commandments without fear or regret, who works hard to make others suffer, or who fights for personal gain at your expense -- Sarah Price
Stationer, that Riddlesden, the attorney, was a very knave. -- Benjamin Franklin
A person who doesn't know exactly what he wants out of life, jumps at everything that appears silver in his way and hold tight onto them to the point degradation. -- Darmie Orem
What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it. -- John Webster
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. -- Douglas Macarthur
I'm the king of crime. I'm the criminal. I'm the juvenile delinquent, the rebel, the outcast, the unwanted. I'm everything that everybody looks down on and is standing on, spitting on, cursing and calling names, and hating, buying and selling all the different things. -- Marlin Marynick
A woman of keen mind but no moral scruple whatever. And an occasionally violent temper. Just how many time did you stab that merchant, Derla? I forget. -- Anthony Ryan
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Winston S. Churchill
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells? -- Mahatma Gandhi
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. -- Ambrose Bierce
Slave. Minion. Fiend. The others who have come before me have been called such things, but I prefer to think of myself as a disciple; a devout follower of my voluptuous mistress. -- Charlotte Featherstone
Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words. -- Margaret Atwood
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying. -- Abel Hermant
So the question is ... You wanna be a Scruffian or not? -- Hal Duncan
He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore. -- Peter Benchley
Betrayal betrays the betrayer. -- Erica Jong
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. -- Juvenal
A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven. ISMENE -- Sophocles
A very scurvy fellow. -- William Shakespeare
A rebel without a clue. -- Tom Petty
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
No wonder you're so successful in your business. You're a scoundrel." "Why thank you, sweetheart. That's so nice of you to say." "Only you would take being called a scoundrel and a tempting devil as compliments." "Coming from you, they're the best compliments I've ever received. -- Marie Force
Some sort of psychopath, like a serial killer. -- Patricia Cornwell
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. -- H.l. Mencken
Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. -- Howard Scott
Politics is the last resort of scoundrels. -- Blase Bonpane
equal-opportunity sadist. -- Rick Yancey
A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men. -- George R R Martin
A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him. -- Leigh Bardugo
You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief! -- William Golding
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. -- Ambrose Bierce
You are a steward of the pain and injustices people have visited upon you. Or, if you prefer we could call you a scrupulous coroner. -- Wally Lamb
N the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum. -- Masashi Kishimoto
Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
And mutiny the dictates of his spirit. -- Thomas Otway
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. -- George Bernard Shaw
Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own. -- Ambrose Bierce
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. -- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. -- Ambrose Bierce
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. -- Theodore Parker
A person born with an instinct for poverty. -- Elbert Hubbard
Man who rules the mob only as long as he says what the mob wants him to say. -- Ayn Rand
Is this where you tell me that I'm a scoundrel, and I say that I think you like me because I'm a scoundrel? Because we've already covered this, I'm the Han Solo. -- Rainbow Rowell
You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd:
Whip me such honest knaves. -- William Shakespeare
When you associate with scum, you become scum. -- Kathy Wakile
A saint abroad, and a devil at home. -- John Bunyan
On my word as a liar and cutthroat. -- Leigh Bardugo
Once a criminal of betrayal,
always a betrayer.
Petra Hermans
August 18, 2016 -- Petra Hermans
He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined. -- Chanakya
A pauper in the midst of wealth. -- Horace
Slattern! What a wonderful new word. 'Slattern,' I murmur appreciatively to Patricia.
'Yes, slattern,' Bunty says firmly. 'That's what she is.'
'Not a slut like you then?' Patricia says very quietly. Loud enough to be heard, but too quiet to be believed. -- Kate Atkinson
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But where her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety. -- William Shakespeare
Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian. -- Athenaeus
boor (which originally just meant "farmer," as in the German Bauer and Dutch boer); villain (from the French vilein, a serf or villager); churlish (from English churl, a commoner); vulgar (common, as in the term vulgate); and ignoble, not an aristocrat. -- Steven Pinker
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm no hero," said Scapegrace. "I'm just a man, who used to be a woman, who used to be a man. My name is Vaurien Scapegrace, and I have come here to - -- Derek Landy
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood. -- Criss Jami
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball -- Quinn Loftis
A good man who did a bad thing. -- Mary Matalin
...a leering, sneering obscene little harpy... -- Virginia Woolf
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. -- Alcaeus
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. -- John Florio
I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled. "Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Holmes chuckled heartily. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Look into the world
how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear. -- Laurence Sterne
What an absolute scumbag. What an absolutely, perfectly sculpted, beautifully smelling . . . scumbag. -- Madeline Sheehan
