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Quotes About Bastards

Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
~ George R.R. Martin
Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.
~ George R.R. Martin
Many promised him their voices: Fralegg the Strong, clever Alvyn Sharp, humpbacked Hotho Harlaw. Hotho offered him a daughter for his queen. "I have no luck with wives," Victarion told him. His first wife died in childbed, giving him a stillborn daughter. His second had been stricken by a pox. And his third … "A king must have an heir," Hotho insisted. "The Crow's Eye brings three sons to show before the kingsmoot." "Bastards
~ George R.R. Martin
Yet there was one problem: at the age of nine-and-ten, Laenor preferred the company of squires of his own age, and was said never to have known a woman intimately, nor to have any bastards. But to this, Grand Maester Mellos was said to have remarked, "What of it? I am not fond of fish, but when fish is served, I eat it.
~ George R.R. Martin
Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend.
~ George R.R. Martin
Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.
~ George R.R. Martin
All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes
~ George RR Martin
they were experimenting with narcoanalysis and found that Old Bull had seven separate personalities, each growing worse and worse on the way down, till finally he was a raving idiot and had to be restrained with chains. The top personality was an English lord, the bottom the idiot. Halfway he was an old Negro who stood in line, waiting with everyone else and said, Some's bastards, some's ain't, that's the score.
~ Jack Kerouac
The Lucy Dawn was slowly drifting away as flames engulfed it. Longarm gestured behind him at the blazing ship and called, 'It's over, Uriah. You won't be shanghaiing any more poor bastards on that flaming hellhole.
~ Tabor Evans
All birds are bastards.
~ Neal Stephenson
Let's face up to the question of who we support; let's defend the bastards and reform them later. 
~ Niall Ferguson
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
Trouble is, I feel too paternal towards you, you son of a bitch." "That's the trouble with all you white bastards.
~ James Baldwin
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
Sin Fever," Wraith chimed in with a little too much enjoyment. Sin Fever? They'd named the fucking disease after her? Bastards.
~ Larissa Ione
in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?
~ Laurence Olivier
All those bastards are alive! Alive! All of them!" ¡Están todos los huevones vivos!
~ Hector Tobar
Look at 'em intimidating those old bastards. Check out that satanic sparkle in their eyes. You don't get that from Folgers.
~ Tim Dorsey
If the world turned Fascist, if Cummings had his century, there was a little thing he could do. There was always terrorism. But a neat terrorism with nothing sloppy about it, no machine guns, no grenades, no bombs, nothing messy, no indiscriminate killing. Merely the knife and the garrote, a few trained men, and a list of fifty bastards to be knocked off, and then another fifty.
~ Norman Mailer
Why do we persist in this divided idiocy? Because the world is full of prideful bastards, that's why. Everyone believes they're smarter than everyone else, more capable than everyone else, more justified than everyone else. Humility went extinct a long time ago.
~ Orson Scott Card
And why does Earth fail to learn its lesson?" Lem said. "Why do we persist in this divided idiocy? Because the world is full of prideful bastards, that's why. Everyone believes they're smarter than everyone else, more capable than everyone else, more justified than everyone else. Humility went extinct a long time ago.
~ Orson Scott Card
Do I think you're crazy? he said. No. I dont. You've rewrote the book for crazy. If all you are is crazy then all them poor bastards in the loonybin that they're feedin under the door need to be set loose in the street.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—" "And because they're smart at everything," Seth said, "that makes it okay for them to be evil bastards?
~ Cory Doctorow
As Leonardo's well-attended baptism attests, being born out of wedlock was not a cause for public shame. The nineteenth-century cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt went so far as to label Renaissance Italy "a golden age for bastards.
~ Walter Isaacson