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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
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.
Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
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.
Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.
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!
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
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.
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
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.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
