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Quotes About Bastard

Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious. For he that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can, to impair another's; except these defects light upon a very brave, and heroical nature, which thinketh to make his natural wants part of his honor; in that it should be said, that an eunuch, or a lame man, did such great matters; affecting the honor of a miracle; as it was in Narses the eunuch, and Agesilaus and Tamberlanes, that were lame men.
~ bacon francis xviii
Harry Constantine: We've let a moment's warmth put off decision's chill. I don't want to go back below, John, bastard though I am. I want to rest. John Constantine: You're a bastard all right, Harry... But one bastard can forgive another. Who else will?
~ Garth Ennis
He was a crusty old bastard, dressed like my uncle in ancient denim coveralls, espadrilles and beret. He had a leathery, tanned and windblown face, hollow cheeks, and the tiny broken blood vessels on nose and cheeks that everyone seemed to have from drinking so much of the local Bordeaux.
~ Anthony Bourdain
What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?' I nudged him hard, saying: 'Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing.
~ Anthony Burgess
A flip dark chill winter bastard though dry
~ Anthony Burgess
Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
~ John Milton
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
~ John Milton
and he turned his aim on another poor ignorant miserable anonymous bastard crouched behind another gun. A bastard whom he didn't know, had never known, would never know, and couldn't hate specifically, but kill and kill and kill and kill—and
~ John Oliver Killens
Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?
~ Mark Twain
writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.
~ Ayn Rand
paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Grizzled old bastard like him don't go providing death-bed transformations.
~ Sebastian Barry
You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand." He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar." "Cutpurse." "Runaway." "Swindler! "Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back. "Bastard!" "Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.
~ Shana Abé
Mitch glanced at Ralph and back at Brendon. "I think he's snoring." "Or those are hunger growls." "Bastard.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Doc seemed to gather himself to say something important, and spoke as firmly as he could, though his voice was somewhere between a whisper and a whine. Wyatt, I cannot make you another denture. No more fights. You get that mad again, shoot the bastard. Promise me.
~ Mary Doria Russell
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
~ Roland Barthes
I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.
~ Bernard Cornwell
You're giving up the hunt for de Taillebourg?' Thomas asked. He had learned the priest's name from Robbie. 'No.' Robbie still had his head back as he stared at the magnificence of the transept's ceiling. 'I'll find him and then I'll gralloch the bastard.' Thomas did not know what gralloch meant, but decided the word was bad news for de Taillebourg.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Morgan was high born herself. She was the first of the four bastards, three girls and a boy, fathered on Igraine of Gwynedd by High King Uther. Her brother was Arthur and
~ Bernard Cornwell
when he smiled, of course, he looked so young . . . No wonder she was getting this under-the-eyelashes treatment, she decided; the bastard was probably a Scorpio, trying to take her prisoner. She gave him the rest of her coffee.
~ Eve Babitz
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
~ Billy Wilder
The doorman took my suitcase and sneaked an admiring glance at Terese before giving me the universal man-to-man smirk that said, Lucky bastard. The
~ Harlan Coben
This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw.
~ Michael Moorcock
Bastard was a term of affection between us, as it usually is in the sub-continent between men who share a Catholic missionary-school education.
~ Tabish Khair