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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
— Thomas Carlyle
A rogue is a roundabout fool.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Little rogues easily become great ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
— Alexandre Dumas
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
— Alexander Pope
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
— Tom Peters
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
— Aristophanes
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
— William Hazlitt
Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues!
— Carlo Collodi
What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
Make yourselves scabs? — William Shakespeare
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
Make yourselves scabs? — William Shakespeare
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
— George Crabbe
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
— Tracy Lawrence
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
— Douglas William Jerrold
She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.
— Lisa Papademetriou
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
— Anthony Trollope
The rogue has everywhere the advantage.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
— J.G. Holland
One rogue leads another.
— Homer
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
— William Butler Yeats
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
— Jonathan Swift
There ain't no law in Mexico. It's just a pack of rogues.
— Cormac McCarthy
With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'
— Sarah Palin
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
— Henry David Thoreau
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Great rogues hang the little ones.
— Cardinal Mazarin
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
— Thomas Jefferson
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
— Friedrich Schiller
I have several people among my acquaintances who might be described as 'fearsome rogues.' Did he give a name?
— Pamela Belle
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
— J.K. Rowling
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
— Charles De Secondat
Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.
— Michael Moore
It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.
— Henry David Thoreau
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
— Horace Walpole
Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.
— Loretta Chase
When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.
— Matthew Hale
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
— Charles Caleb Colton
cared for no rogues but their own,
— Walter Scott
There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.
— William Shakespeare
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
— Helen Mirren
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.
— John Dryden
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
— H.L. Mencken
If I must consort with rogues [ ... ] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
— Georgette Heyer
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
— Alexandre Dumas
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.
— Thomas Gainsborough
He was a good-looking man, but then rogues usually are
— Karen Maitland
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
— Oscar Wilde
Rogues, would you live forever?
— Frederick The Great
Our rogue President, after selling face time ...
— William Safire
Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
— Jean De La Fontaine
The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.
— Joe Lieberman
Away, you mouldy rogue, away!
— William Shakespeare
The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly supressed.
— Eugene V. Debs