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• Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Patriotism, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

  Michael Caine

  Dirty, Naughty, Rotten

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• Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Liars, Law

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• Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, "How are you, you old scoundrel!" clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Serious, Sometimes

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Movie, Dirty

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• What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Lasts, Refuge

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Used, Raskolnikov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.24, Google Publishing

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• PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.

  Chaz Bufe

  Country, Government, Feelings

  Chaz Bufe (2014). “Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements”, p.168, See Sharp Press

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• So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Self, Doe, Fool

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

  Sarah MacLean

  Believe, Firsts, Logic

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• A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you.” -- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)

  Karen Chance

  Gentleman, Joining, Tubs

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• It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ungrateful People, Obligation, Misfortunes

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• We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

  Jacques Barzun

  Integrity, Passion, Artist

  Jacques Barzun's preface to the 3rd edition of his book "Berlioz and the Romantic Century", 1969.

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• If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Drinking, Dirty, Alcohol

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1884). “Treasure Island”, p.8

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• As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

  William Faulkner

  Two, Long, People

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• Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Believe, Compassion, Lasts

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• I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Intelligent, Men, Blood

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• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

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• An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

  William Nordhaus

  Want, Way, Economist

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• Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Ears, Way

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• 40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Cia Agents, Criminals, Thieves

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fun, Fiction, Share

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.55, Penguin

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• I think people are a mixture of everything. I like desperate characters because they do things that most of us normally wouldn't do. If a character is a scoundrel or a liar you think you know them, but then I can bring some emotion to them and they become much fuller than you ever imagined. So what I try to do is have a story where you don't quite know where it's going, and characters who you don't quite know where they're going.

  Richard Shepard

  Liars, Character, Thinking

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

  Dean Burk

  Lying

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• If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

  Paul Gauguin

  People, Different, Would Be

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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