#rascal

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#nobility #rascals #social #nobility

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