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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. -- Lillian Hellman
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
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
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. -- Michael Crichton
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting. -- Murray Kempton
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. -- George Bernard Shaw
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel! -- Michael Crichton
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. -- Georges Jacques Danton
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Charles P. Kindleberger
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W. Clement Stone
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. -- William Blake
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. -- Shakti Gawain
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. -- Jonathan Swift
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 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
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
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. -- Albert Einstein
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
A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners. -- Sarah MacLean
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. -- William Blake
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour. -- Charles Dickens
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -- H. L. Mencken
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings. -- Tom Wesselmann
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick. -- Abraham Lincoln
Scoundrels are always sociable. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young. -- Osamu Dazai
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
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship. -- Lord Byron
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. -- Neal Boortz
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. -- Georges Jacques Danton
I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out. -- Rush Limbaugh
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment. -- Naomi Wolf
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will. -- Lysander Spooner
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun. -- Steve Martin
They (ACS) lie like scoundrels. -- Dean Burk
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels. -- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it. -- El Greco
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off! -- J. K. Rowling
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels. -- Franz Grillparzer
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels. -- Diogenes
Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind. -- Sabrina Jeffries
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. -- Jasper Fforde
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. -- Patrick Ness
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. -- Stendhal
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. -- Franz Kafka
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy. -- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. -- Robert Genn
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word. -- Honore de Balzac
Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other. -- Ayn Rand
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
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
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
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
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. -- Albert Einstein
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
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. -- Philip Wylie
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror. -- Franz Liszt
To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you. -- Zicheng Hong

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