blackguard quotes

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision seesthings as theyare, not as they ought to be.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

Sesquipedalian blackguard.

- Arthur Hugh Clough
  The Bothie of  Tober-na-Vuolich, pt.2, l.223.