scoundrel quotes

He who would do good to another man must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

-Blake,William
c.1804^1807  Jerusalem, plate 55.

Patriotism is seen not onlyas the last refuge of the scoundrel but as the first bolt-hole of the hypocrite. See Johnson 444:8.

-Bragg, Melvyn Bragg, Baron
  Speak For England, introduction.

   Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,7  Apr. Collected in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings'.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  BB.The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

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