Quotes About Scoundrels

'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.

The bad guys are the best parts.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.

Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.

I've always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

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.

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.

Goodis's protagonists find refuge amongst tramps, thieves, whores and drunks.

I would say that you have fallen into the commonest fallacy of all in dealing with social and economic subjects—the 'devil theory.' [...] You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. [...] You think banders are scoundrels. They are not. Nor are company officials, nor patrons, nor the governing classes back on earth. Men are constrained by necessity and build up rationalizations to account for their acts.

The more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

As Hobbes remarked, in war, force and fraud are the cardinal virtues, and he regarded international relations as always potentially a condition of war. Cavour, one of the creators of a united Italy in the nineteenth century, is reported as remarking: 'What scoundrels we would be if we had done for ourselves what we have done for our country.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

What, then, is patriotism? Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels, said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment for the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities of life as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the average working man.

We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, and spread them out. We talk of the bad years when the cotton didn't open, and the day my cousin Wanda was washed in the Blood. We buff our beloved ancestors until they are smooth of sin, and give our scoundrels a hard shake, although sometimes we can't remember exactly which is who.

Religion has proved to be the refuge of so many scoundrels, one begins by doubting, and waits to be proven wrong. [The Language of Bees, chapter 30]

What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

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

a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.

Louisiana was notorious as the last refuge of French whores and scoundrels. By

Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

All men are scoundrels and I am happy to be able to do more than hate them: now I despise them.