Quotes About Ruffians

un grumo di orrore / e vivacchio fra i miei gatti / ruffiani»).

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit: he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze; he will discard it when, and only when, he wills to do so, and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone. It is, as I say, a matter of 'dignity'.

In reply to Roman peace offers, the chieftain Calgacus called the Romans 'the ruffians of the world', and said that 'to plunder, slaughter and robbery they give the lying name of empire; they make a desert and call it peace'.2

Into the darker regions of Venice I traveled, the mist hanging thick over the canals, to those dimly lighted places where ruffians abound.

The Hawkhurst Gang was a pernicious set of ruffians – smugglers, you understand – that held a rule of terror over the countryside when your grandfather was a boy. They committed every sort of atrocity, and were so strong in numbers – how many men was it they were able to muster within an hour, Father?''I forget,' returned his lordship shortly. 'Five hundred,' supplied Richmond. 'And they used to have regular battles with rival gangs!

La suspención de una amenaza no constituye pago; la negación de un elemento negativo no es recompensa; la retirada de sus rufianes armados no constituye incentivo; la oferta de no asesinarme, no representa ningún valor.

The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

He belongs to a pugilism club where they batter each other senseless, in the savate style." "What is that?" "A kind of fighting that developed in the streets of Old Paris. Quite vicious. My brother secretly hopes to be attacked by ruffians someday, but so far, no luck.