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Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind. — Sabrina Jeffries

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other. — Ayn Rand

I don't care if we lose the company, miss. But I would care a great deal if we lost the boy. — Ally Carter

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions. — Raheel Farooq

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. — Carl T. Rowan

Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. — Theodore Roosevelt

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day. — Sophocles

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal

The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him. — Ally Carter

We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. — Antoinette Du Ligier De La Garde Deshoulieres

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. — Patrick Ness

I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out. — Rush Limbaugh

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons. — H.L. Mencken

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once. — Peter O'Toole

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — Franz Kafka

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him. — Ira Remsen

Louisiana was notorious as the last refuge of French whores and scoundrels. By — Ann Jones

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. — Jean De La Bruyere

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

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

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer! — Gwyneth Paltrow

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution. — William Earl Maxwell

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

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. — Georges Jacques Danton

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same. — Al-Ma'arri

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. — Neal Boortz

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off! — J.K. Rowling

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Politics is the last resort of scoundrels. — Blase Bonpane

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels. — Diogenes

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. — William Blake

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. — Steve Martin

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. — Michael Caine

Scoundrels are always sociable. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

They (ACS) lie like scoundrels. — Dean Burk

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. — Jasper Fforde

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. — H.L. Mencken

Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth. — Steven Pinker

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. — Lillian Hellman

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. — Franz Grillparzer

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. — Honore De Balzac

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn

a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory. — Jim Dodge

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation. — Mason Cooley

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

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement. — Nelson Rodrigues

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy. — Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. — El Greco

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. — William Nordhaus

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton