“ If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
“ The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
“ I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
“ He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
“ The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
“ Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
“ It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. ”
- David Hume- Copy
“ Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
“ I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast! ”
- George Canning- Copy
“ Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. ”
- John Milton- Copy
“ A rascally yea-forsooth knave. - King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
“ Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. ”
- Lillian Hellman- Copy
“ We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be. ”
- Slobodan Milosevic- Copy
“ As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
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