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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Eugene V. Debs
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
— Theodore Roosevelt
You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!
— Ambrose Bierce
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
— Peter O'Toole
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel ... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
— Martin Van Creveld
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
— Ambrose Bierce
Forgive me ... I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
— Lloyd Alexander
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Any man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.
— Ira Remsen
The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
— Pearl S. Buck
You are a cad,' he told himself. 'A cur. A bounder. A scoundrel. A ... human thesaurus.
— Sarah M. Eden
I couldn't help my blush. Especially as Rhys added, Tonight, I want you to wear that crown to bed. Only the crown. Scoundrel. Always. I
— Sarah J. Maas
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
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
— W. Clement Stone
Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?
— Anthony Liccione
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
— Vladimir Lenin
40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.
— Anatoly Chubais
The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence ... also the damnest fool.
— Abraham Lincoln
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
— Robert A. Heinlein
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
— William Nordhaus
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— George Galloway
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
My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.
— Jane Austen
Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
— Al-Ma'arri
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
— Remy De Gourmont
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
— Robert Walker, Baron Walker Of Gestingthorpe
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
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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 looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.
— Henry James
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
— Walter Scott
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
— Erica Jong
I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
— H.L. Mencken
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Boies Penrose
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
— Michael Crichton
Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.
— Emmett Tyrrell
He was a scoundrel, and he deserved whatever happened to him. But for just one shining, magical night Lily would pretend he was a prince.
— Linda Lael Miller
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H.L. Mencken
Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Then he hung up, the scoundrel!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
— Joseph De Maistre
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
— Mark Twain
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
— Mason Cooley
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
— Franz Grillparzer
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
— Nelson Rodrigues
Sometimes a scoundrel is useful to our party precisely because he is a scoundrel. V. I. Lenin
— Catherine Merridale
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
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.
— Umberto Eco
If patriotism is a scoundrel's last refuge, then the concept of freedom is his first sales pitch.
— James Rozoff
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
— Murray Kempton
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel.Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart — Judith McNaught
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
— Heywood Broun
Within the hour, Abraham Ravenwood was denounced as the Devil, a cheat, a scoundrel, a no-goodnik, and a thief.
— Kami Garcia
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
— William Blake
Stupidity is brief and guileless, while reason hedges and hides. Reason is a scoundrel, stupidity is direct and honest.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
— Jonathan Swift
I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
