Quotes by Scoundrels 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-peoplescoundrelsobligation The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. Remy de Gourmont scoundrelspleasuresilence To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. Steve Martin another-womanscoundrelscaught There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. Theodore Roosevelt scoundrelsgivenpraise I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. Vladimir Nabokov brutalscoundrelscould-have-been General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. William Blake scoundrelsorganizedhypocrite An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. William Nordhaus scoundrelswantway In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. Georges Jacques Danton greatestscoundrelsremainsauthority«12
