Rake

Famous quotes containing the word rake:

“A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)