#bastards

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. ↗

— Robert Burton

#ancient #bastards #been #every #families

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. ↗

— Claire Wolfe

#awkward #bastards #early #late #shoot

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#bastards #grouch #i #just #mind

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#cries #eyes #goddam #heart #mean

I decided there and then to sue the bastards. ↗

— Barry Sheene

#decided #i #sue #then #there and then

Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to use the term thus is to show that they themselves are less than a proper human being. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#children #leonardo-da-vinci #matteo #value-of-life #life

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody--has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#locke-lamora #stealing #thieves #tolerance

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#among #bastards #fall #liberals #out

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#civilians #control #distort #feelings #hysteria

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. ↗

— Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

#bastards #got #poor #surrounded #us