Rascals Quotes

• In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Order, Firsts

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• Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Thieves

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• You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

  Debbie Harry

  Fall, Guy, Devil

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• Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Wickedness

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• Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Criminals, Facts

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Thinking, Fool

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.230, e-artnow

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• Rascals, do you want to live forever?

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Military, War, Forever

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• They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

  Jacob Grimm

  Class, People, Lost

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen (1952). “Tales of Grimm and Andersen”

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• Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

  Doug Larson

  People, Giving, Choices

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• If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wicked, Rebellious, Ifs

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow

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• My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Speaking Up, Succeed

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• When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Mind, Fool

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• Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Religious, Believer

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• You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Grace, Accused

  1776 Remark, May. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

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• The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

  Voltaire

  Religion, Firsts, Fool

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

  Danny Brown

  Influence, Yeah, Huge

  "Danny Brown Town". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2012.

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• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

  Chanakya

  Family, Son, Tree

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• I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song was sexier than the sex I was trying to have.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Song, Girlfriend, Sex

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• This rascal ego must be obliterated.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ego

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  Sallust

  Feelings, Tears, Sincerity

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• Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

  Mariano Azuela

  Heart, Government, Injustice

  Mariano Azuela (1956). “Two Novels of Mexico: The Flies. The Bosses”, p.110, Univ of California Press

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• Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Silly, Heart

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