My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
Scoundrels are always sociable.
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it. " The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
