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I didn’t think you’d like that sort of thing. I read a bit of one of them once. God, I couldn’t finish it – the language! Unbelievable. It’s a bit much for me, Father – feck this and feck that. Ya big bastard. Oh dreadful language. Ya big hairy arse, you big fecker. Fierce stuff. And of course the F word, Father … Bastard this and bastard that. You can’t move for the bastards in her novels. It’s wall to wall bastards. Father Ted s1e5: And God Created Woman, Mrs Doyle to Ted, Channel 4 1995
Harry the Bastard! ... Wow, what a complete bastard! The Young Ones: Nasty, gang watch Alexei Sayle emerging from grave, BBC 1984
Go to sleep, my little baby
Cause you haven’t got a dad
Go to sleep, my little baby
Things aren’t really quite so bad –
There’s no reason any longer
Why you ought to feel so blue
The world is full of bastards
Just like you. Millicent Martin, That Was the Week That Was 19th January 1963
Why ‘bastard’? Wherefore ‘base’,
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true
As honest madam’s issue? William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I ii @6, Edmund
Now gods, stand up for bastards! ibid. I ii 21
We are bastards all. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline II v 2, Posthumus
Bastardy In England & Wales as indicated by the Registers of Births 1842. Royal Statistical Society London journal
6Nil carborundum illegitimi. Latin saying popularized during Second World War: Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down
I’m a bastard. But I’m a bastard who gets the mail through. And they appreciate that. Paul Keating, Australian statesman, to colleague 1994, cited Sunday Telegraph 20th November 1994
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. Deuteronomy 23:2
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. John Lennon
All I want is a gentleman. I’m sick to bloody death of bastards. (Bastard & Gentleman) Katie Price
You take somebody that cries their goddamn eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart. J D Salinger
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end. George Michael
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. Dorothy Parker
What have you been reading, the gospel according to St Bastard? Eddie Izzard
Let us pray to God ... The bastard! He doesn’t exist! Samuel Beckett, Endgame, 1958
We knocked the bastard off. Edmund Hillary
All dwarfs are bastards in their father’s eyes. Game of Thrones s1e1: Winter is Coming, starring Sean Bean & Mark Addy & Nikolai Coster Waldau & Michelle Fairley & Lena Headey & Emilia Clarke & Iain Glen & Harry Lloyd et al, director Tim van Patten, opening scene with dump of dead bodies, HBO 2011
Some’s bastards, some’s ain’t. That’s the score. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Him: Grandad to a bastard. Is there a word for that?
Her: Cunt. Down Terrace 2009 starring Robin Hill & Robert Hill & Julia Deakin & David Schaal & Kerry Peacock & Tony Way & Mark Kempner & Michael Smiley & Gareth Tunley & Kali Peacock et al, director Ben Wheatley