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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

Not only an untrustworthy scoundrel but a fundamentally wicked person.

Pius Xii

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 that it is the first.

Ambrose Bierce

[The elders] yelled at us, told us we were traitors, enemies of the people. They told me I was a scoundrel and a liar. 'What are you doing?' they said. 'Who gave you the right?' they said. 'People like you don't have any rights,' they said.

Jumadurdy Ovezov

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Heywood C. Broun

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

Shakti Gawain

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Joseph Marie De Maistre

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

Murray Kempton

I'm against doping but they shouldn't do that. They should go up to athletes openly and show their badge. You can't treat athletes as if every one of them was a scoundrel.

Peter Schroecksnadel