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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a
safety-pin.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
He is a man of splendid abilities but is utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks
like rotten mackerel by moonlight.
- John Randolph
Every drop of blood in that man's veins has eyes that look downward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, on Daniel Webster
Greater love hath no man than this, to lay down his friends for his life.
- Jeremy Thorpe
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
- Groucho Marx
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him.
One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.
- Mark Twain
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
- Jack London
His face was filled with broken commandments.
- John Masefield
The perfection of rottenness.
- William James
He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
- Lady Caroline Lamb, on Lord Byron
He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
- Margot Asquith
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral
bankruptcy.
- Woody Allen
You make Al Capone look like a petty shoplifter.
- Cynthia Israel to Ralph Halpern
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
- Oscar Levant
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.
- Simone Signoret
I cannot be bought, but I can be rented.
- Don O'Shaughnessy
A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.
- Texas Guinan
A gypsy tells the truth once in his life, and immediately repents.
- Russian proverb
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely
fatal.
- Oscar Wilde
Every man has the right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a
right to knock him down for it.
- Samuel Johnson
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
The world will be a better place when the Found ads in the newspapers begin to
outnumber the Lost ads.
- Lisa Kirk
He hath out-villiain'd villainy so far that the rarity redeems him.
- William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.
- Kate Cruise O'Brien
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty
little beast.
- W. S. Gilbert
You're a mouse studying to be a rat.
- Wilson Mizner
You have a good and kind soul. It just doesn't match the rest of you.
- Norm Papernick
The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human
nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England.
- Charles Dickens on Henry VIII
The biggest bug in the manure pile.
- Elia Kazan on Harry Cohn
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty.
- Sam Houston, on Thomas Jefferson Green
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
She was divinely, hysterically, insanely malevolent.
- Bette Davis, on Theda Bara |
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