Scoundrels Quotes
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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 -
'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
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What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
Cavour -
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
Peter O'Toole -
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
Honore de Balzac -
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 -
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
Jasper Fforde
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
Stendhal -
Scoundrels are always sociable.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
When we in Russia establish law and order, when the country has an established independent judiciary, I will be the first to go to Brussels and Strasbourg and lobby for the law to be repealed, because we will deal with our scoundrels ourselves, and we won’t need any Magnitsky Law.
Boris Nemtsov -
PATRIOTISM. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.
Chaz Bufe -
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
William Nordhaus -
You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Georges Danton -
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Murray Kempton -
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
William Batchelder Greene -
They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.
Dean Burk -
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Charles P. Kindleberger -
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. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
Michael Crichton