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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

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel. — Horace

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

That one doesn't count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you? — H.S. Crow

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

Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels. — Mary Street

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

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton

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

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. — Shakti Gawain

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

If one tells the truth about being a scoundrel, is he a scoundrel at all? — Sarah MacLean

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

What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? — W.C. Fields

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

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. — Bob Dylan

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

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake

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

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel. — George III

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

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool. — Voltaire