Scoundrelly Quotes & Sayings

God does so love to make a man break a promise. — Simon R. Green

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. — Will Rogers

Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course. — Catherynne M Valente

It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap? — Joseph Heller

Why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it? — Lisa Gardner

What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection. — Albert Pike

In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tell me about it, he said. Tell me why you're so unhappy. It's just everything. There are too many people. And I don't fit in. I don't know how to be. Nothing that I'm good at it is sort of thing that matters there. — Rainbow Rowell

What more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us? — Martin Luther