scum quotes

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  The Flying Inn, ch.15.

Okie use'ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch.Okie means you're scum. Don'mean nothing itself, it's the way they say it.

-John Ernest Steinbeck
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.18.

We have intheservicethescumof the earth as common soldiers.

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  Comment 21 Jun, before the Battle ofVitoria. Quoted in Elizabeth Longford Wellington:TheYears of the Sword, p.321.