Top 11 Delinquent Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Delinquent Quotes from famous people such as Henry James Sumner Maine, Philip Wylie, Shaquille O’Neal, Louis de Bernieres, Miles Teller, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.
Shaquille O’Neal
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
Louis de Bernieres
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
Miles Teller
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
Wayne Kramer
Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.
Dwayne Johnson
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Frank Sinatra
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Clara Hughes
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student – I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents’ bookshelf.
Philipp Meyer