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Quotes About Scum

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
~ Duke of Wellington
That was in June, fish-fly season, when each year our town is covered bythe flotsam of those ephemeral insects. Rising in clouds from the algae in the polluted lake, they blacken windows, coat cars and street amps,plaster the municipal docks and festoon the rigging of sailboats, always in the same brown ubiquity of flying scum.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The wonderful thing about Congress is that the really crazy scum are all gathered up in one single asylum where the people can keep an eye on them.
~ David Gustafson
Marcone's scum, but he's his own scum -Harry Dresden
~ Jim Butcher
into the iron pot for flavor. It was also my task to skim the scum that boiled to the top of the broth as the bones simmered, leaving the broth clear and rich.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
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
This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was angry and thought it was OK because his anger was righteous.
~ Richard Coles
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,'" I quoted. "Which Holmes story is that from?" the chief asked. "I don't recognize the reference." "It's from Star Wars
~ Donna Andrews
Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime—the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.
~ John Irving
I've been so hurt. I've been broken and treated like dirt. People saw me as scum, they thought I was dumb. Everywhere I went, a door would slam. I felt shunned by the whole world. What did I do? I was nothing but a nice girl.
~ Unknown
H.P. Lovecraft, wrote of places of evil and filth, of places where slimy things crawled away from the light to nurse on poison and scum.
~ Marc MacYoung
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.
~ Melina Marchetta
You're a bully and I know you don't care, but I just thought you should know that I think you're scum. He's probably some miserable kid with his own demons and he doesn't need yours.
~ Melina Marchetta
The king's very simple cousin, for example, pointed out that the tower Froi could see from where he was standing was the prison and currently held only one prisoner. "The rest of the the scum are kept in dungeons close to the bridge of the Citavita," the man explained. "And the king?" Froi asked. "We try not to refer to him as scum out loud," the man whispered.
~ Melina Marchetta
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 him?" she said, her voice shaking with anger. "No," he said sadly. "Pity him. Or give him new rules.
~ Melina Marchetta
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~ Peter Kropotkin
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~ Peter Kropotkin