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They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.
Scoundrels are always sociable.
We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
I love Steve Martin so much, even in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.'
Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a 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.
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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 Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.
'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.
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.
Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.