Scalawags Quotes

“I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. "You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.”
― Susan Dennard, Something Strange and Deadly

“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Don’t it s’prise you de way dem kings carries on, Huck?”

“No,” I says, “it don’t.”

“Why don’t it, Huck?”

“Well, it don’t, because it’s in the breed. I reckon they’re all alike.”

“But, Huck, dese kings o’ ourn is reglar rapscallions; dat’s jist what dey is; dey’s reglar rapscallions.”

“Well, that’s what I’m a-saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“There is an urgent need to remove the scalawags from professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“When I worked in the utility electrical industry, I was surrounded by scalawags.”
― Steven Magee

“There were a lot of scalawags in the solar photovoltaic industry.”
― Steven Magee