Quotation Explorer - 'Scum'

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. - G. K. Chesterton
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
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum. - Anne Rice
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Don't you feel shame? I thought scum like you could at least feel shame - Kohta Hirano
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
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea. - Charlotte Brontë
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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