We knocked the bastard off!

-Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival
  On returning from the summit of Everest,  Jun. Quoted in his autobiography Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (1975), ch.10.

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
On her abortion. Quoted inJ Keats You Might asWell Live (1970).

Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

-Plath, Sylvia
  'Daddy', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's conceited. Even smart girls do it.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.18.

I donot mind the Liberals, still less do Imind the Country party, calling me a bastard. In some circumstances, I am only doing my job if they do. But I hope that you will not publicly call me a bastard, as some bastards in the Caucus have.

-Whitlam, (Edward) Gough
  Speech to theAustralian Labor Party, 9 Jun.