#scoundrel

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings. ↗

— Tom Wesselmann

#anything #anyway #approached #before #care

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

#any #confession #great #heart #i

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#him #idiot #kill #opponent #scoundrel

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

#greatest #remains #revolutions #scoundrels

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#before #clock #going #scoundrel #thinks

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

— Jonathan Swift

#had #heaven #looked #riches #scoundrel

But on the upside, I guess we're getting ready to find out if you really only love me for my jet." "I might love you for your jet," Gabrielle said, straight-faced. He smiled a Kat. "What about you?" "Yeah," Kat said, nodding. "I guess that is the question. ↗

— Ally Carter

#heist-society #katarina-bishop #perfect-scoundrels #w-w-hale #love

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

#entire #fools #group #minority #minority group

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. ↗

— Michael Caine

#dirty #flop #flops #i #prefer