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Quotes About Bastards

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
~ Rachel Hartman
Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own. We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
~ Rachel Hartman
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
~ Raymond Chandler
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'
~ Bill Maher
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
~ Umberto Eco
Some would say you're abusing my generosity." "Impertinent bastards.
~ David Liss
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.
~ George S. Patton
Fitz probably had half a dozen bastards around the world, but Ethel's was the only one he knew of for sure.
~ Ken Follett
Those bastards had driven me into a trap; Cyclops  ate  the trap.
~ Kresley Cole
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
~ Terry Pratchett
Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world. Rubble, once achieved, makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable. Let's drink their health... then meet with them no more.
~ Alan Moore
Incidentally, it's funny how often the miseries of this world are caused by short people – they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on with than tall ones. I have always tried to avoid landing up in companies with commanders who are short – usually they are complete bastards.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Incidentally, it's funny how often the miseries of this world are caused by short people - they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on with than tall ones. I have always tried to avoid landing up in companies with commanders who are short - usually they are complete bastards.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Antonio said, "Do you have any other orders?" "Just keep your bowels open and try to lead clean lives. We'll be back in a little while. Come on, you two gentlemen bastards. Let's go.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He called the place Amber, and said that it was run by a half-mad family, with the city itself peopled by their bastards and folks whose ancestors they brought in from other places ages ago.
~ Roger Zelazny
O black night, you who nurse he golden stars! In you I go, bearing this jar poised on my head, to fetch water from springs of rivers; not that any need pushes me to this point, but so I may show the gods the insolence of Aegisthus, and pour out my griefs under huge heaven to my father's spirit. My mother, Tyndareos' daughter, lost in wickedness, to show Aegisthus other sons, she treats me and O restes both s bastards of her house.
~ Euripides
You bastards are on the top of Imperial Lord Auditor Miles Vorkosigan's very own shit list now, you bet. But under what name? Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Huh. Since we've got all the answers, I sometimes wonder why we follow these bastards." "I hear a lot of talk about loyalty." "Since we've a dozen dead masters between us, and both had a hand in more'n one of the downfalls, I feel no shame in saying that loyalty is overrated.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I think I picked up some passengers from one of those women at the tavern. Little bastards don't half give a man an itch.' Huh. The women are paid to go there. One might have thought the lice would have better taste.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Television cameras should be banned from fund-raisers: donors were "rich and fat and drunk and dumb," Nixon said. "You want to get on TV with the real people, not these sodden looking bastards.
~ John A. Farrell
Men! It would be a wonderful world if we could live without the bastards. Or maybe it wouldn't. Who knows?
~ Sidney Sheldon
Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats!
~ Scott Lynch
That sounds dangerous,'said Jean. 'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.' 'We?' 'We.
~ Scott Lynch