How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys.

Frank Deford

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Carl T. Rowan

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

Charles M. Blow

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur

How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys.

Frank Deford

Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel? If our test cases are the likes of Wagner, Picasso, and, let me say, Dickens, the answer is a resounding yes.

Fred Kaplan

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

George Galloway

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Heywood Broun

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.

Isabella Bird

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.

Jean de la Bruyere

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Jonathan Swift

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.

Jose Marti

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 de Maistre

I love Steve Martin so much, even in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.'

Justin Kurzel

Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.

Katt Williams

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Lillian Hellman

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.

Lysander Spooner