Sentences with phrase «last refuge of a scoundrel»
Rebranding can be the marketing equivalent of bread and circuses, which is why it's so often the last refuge of scoundrels.
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The great Samuel Johnson quipped that «patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.»
Bogle: I'll tweak a Samuel Johnson quote, and say «Liquidity is the last refuge of the scoundrel.»
Dr. Johnson had stated «Patriotism is the last refuge of a Scoundrel» and Oscar Wilde has stated «Politics is the last refuge of a Scoundrel».
While I am not that famous but I say «Religion is the last refuge of a Scoundrel.»
Workers should have their own consciences, or else in a nuclear age they infuse with new meaning Samuel Johnson's old saw about patriotism being the last refuge of a scoundrel.
If patriotism can be the last refuge of a scoundrel, and it can be, contempt for patriotism can be the refuge of gnostics who, in their presumed superiority to the particulars of time and place and people, would evade their duty.
Politicians who wrap themselves in the flag to defend their bad decisions should be reminded of Dr Johnson's famous quote: «Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.»
Patriotism may well be the last refuge of the scoundrel, but that doesn't mean all patriots are scoundrels.
As Samuel Johnson once said, «Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.»
Origin stories are a thing at the moment, even though they are the last refuge of the scoundrel, a telltale sign of creative bankruptcy.
Samuel Johnson famously branded patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel.