#rascal

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.' ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#goethe #humanity #men #poetry #potential

It was when I was in a police cell at the C.I.D. (Central Intelligence Division) headquarters in Lagos; the cell I was in named "The Kalakuta Republic" by the prisoners. I found out when I went to East Africa that "Kalakuta" is a Swahili word that means "rascal." So if rascality is going to get us what we want, we will use it; because we are dealing with corrupt people, we have to be rascally with them. ↗

— Fela Anikulapo Kuti

#fela-anikulapo-kuti #prison #rascal #intelligence

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? ↗

— Mason Cooley

#expect #never #never expect #people #rascals

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#depends #described #english #everything #eyes

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#any #character #chief #company #his

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. ↗

— Chanakya

#causes #destroy #does #family #forest

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. ↗

— Diogenes

#anything #because #called #dog #fawn

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#dad #dickensian #goes #just #kind

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#bit #devil #fall #got #guy

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#honest man #less #make #man #may