Quotation Explorer - 'Scum'

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea. - Charlotte Brontë
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum. - Anne Rice
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. - Manasa Rao Saarloos
The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying. - Arthur Schopenhauer
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. - J. W. Schopf
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. - Edward Abbey
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't you feel shame? I thought scum like you could at least feel shame - Kohta Hirano
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. - G. K. Chesterton
Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class. - John Lanchester
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