Ruffian Quotations

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.

He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.