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  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

    Funny   Wisdom   Country  
  • To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

  • Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

    Truth   Fool   Sadistic  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin
  • No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

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

  • Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

    Freedom   Democracy   Doe  
  • I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

    Intelligent   Men   Blood  
  • In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

    Firsts   Moral   Argument  
    Roger Scruton (2012). “Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey”, p.42, A&C Black
  • Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.

    Eye   Marine   Hair  
  • The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

    Son   Men   Feelings  
    graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”
  • It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

    Men   Long   Alive  
    Caleb Carr (2010). “The Angel of Darkness”, p.13, Ballantine Books
  • Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

    Heart   Black   Flattery  
  • Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.

  • 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.

    Time   Freedom   Fighting  
    "Shut Down Chick-fil-A Properly" by James Peron, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2012.
  • Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.

    Real   Liars   Law  
  • The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?

    Blood   Risk   Dying  
  • 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.

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

    Titles   Add   Lasts  
  • What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.

    Money   Men   Years  
  • 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 (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.352
  • Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel towards yourself, however plausible he may be, or however kindly he may behave; be sure that, the moment he has anything to gain by so doing, he will "throw you over."

    Trust   Men   May  
  • A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you.” -- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)

  • Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

    Men   Patriotism   Ethics  
    Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.350, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    House   Stupidity   Acres  
  • Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

    "Free talk with Neal Boortz". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, triblive.com. March 17, 2007.
  • He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

  • 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.

    Writing   Ears   Way  
  • Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

    Life   War   Government  
  • Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

    Believe   Men   Tyrants  
    Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media
  • In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

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