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  • The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

    Speaking about soldiers in the British Army, November 04, 1813.
  • Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

    Who Cares   World   Scum  
  • Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

    Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam
  • I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.

    Cities   People   Heaven  
    Harold Pinter (1999). “The Dwarfs: And Nine Revue Sketches”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!

    Names   Scum   Hello  
    Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.14, Penguin UK
  • By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

    Wise   Rocks   Band  
  • Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

    Scum   May   Cruelty  
  • Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.

  • ...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why Does Everyone Think that They are Liars, Greedy and Scum?" and Mr Thomson was doing a speech called "Ten Tips to Make Lawyers as Popular as Doctors.

    Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.
  • n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

    World   Scum   Break  
  • Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

    Sports   Football   Jobs  
    "Rommedahl rewards Charlton's patience" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2004.
  • We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

  • Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  • Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

    Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)
  • [E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

    Scum   Littles   Settling  
  • I think the strangest thing probably is when I went to Japan, and I don't know what the hell I was eating, but there was this one thing that seemed to be in a lot of soups and things there - I always called it pond scum. It looked exactly like the green stuff that floats on top of a pond. I would say, "Oh my God, this has pond scum in it!" I would eat it, to be polite, because we were usually with Japanese people and I didn't want to gag or spit it out or anything. And I still don't know what it was.

    Thinking   Japan   People  
    "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.
  • We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.

    America   World   Scum  
  • It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.

  • Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

    Long   People   Answers  
  • This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

  • He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.

    Teacher   Animal   Voice  
  • Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

    Men   Ideas   Different  
    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

    Men   Class   Goes On  
  • This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

    "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.
  • Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.26, Penguin
  • There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

    Pain   Forever   Doubt  
    "Ender's Game". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1985.
  • When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.

  • I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

    Change   Wine   Men  
  • It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

    Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
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