Blackguard Quotes

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. - A. E. Housman

CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. - Ambrose Bierce

BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market --the fine ones on top --have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman. - Ambrose Bierce

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. - Edgar Allan Poe