Top 100 Quotes About Rogues
#1. Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
Alexander Pope
#2. Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
Thomas Otway
#3. If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man.
Wilkie Collins
#4. What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
William Butler Yeats
#6. Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
Helen Mirren
#7. The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
#8. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
Thucydides
#9. An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
Charles Caleb Colton
#10. Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
Horace Walpole
#11. We Draytons are many things: pirates, witches, rogues ... but nobody ever accused us of being ungrateful. A family has to have standards. Even in the Edge.
Ilona Andrews
#12. The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
Naomi Wolf
#13. Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side.
Diana Gabaldon
#15. Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
Marquis De Sade
#17. It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J.G. Holland
#18. Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.
Robert McFarlane
#19. There ain't no law in Mexico. It's just a pack of rogues.
Cormac McCarthy
#20. There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
Charles Caleb Colton
#21. Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
Charles De Secondat
#24. Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues!
Carlo Collodi
#25. Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.
Wilbur Smith
#26. The best safeguard against bad literature is a full experience of good; just as a real and affectionate acquaintance with honest people gives a better protection against rogues than a habitual distrust of everyone.
C.S. Lewis
#28. There is a reason ladies swoon over rogues. They are dominant personalities," Jason said. "And they fall for soldiers because of the powerful image they put out.
Sarah M. Eden
#29. Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
J.K. Rowling
#30. My dear boy, a piece of advice. Read not so many books, and look a little more upon the Peggies. The little rogues are good for thee, O Marius! By continual flight and blushing thou shalt become a brute by Courfeyrac to Marius
Victor Hugo
#31. Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
Aristophanes
#32. When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.
Matthew Hale
#33. 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
#34. Besides Spiderman and Batman, 'The Flash' has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there's enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.
Andrew Kreisberg
#35. Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.
Anthony Scaramucci
#36. Thing to know about the Reaches....It's always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."
Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues
Amy J. Murphy
#37. I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
Vladimir Lenin
#39. You can be the rabbits - " She paused. "I mean the rogues.
Erin Hunter
#40. Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.
Loretta Chase
#41. experience has taught us that a surprisingly high percentage of all our recorded crime, especially burglary and other thefts, are committed by the people in the rogues gallery. We're not stereotyping them, they do that for themselves I'm afraid.
J.J. Salkeld
#42. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
Make yourselves scabs?
William Shakespeare
#43. Lysistrata: "Calonice, it's more than I can bear,
I am hot all over with blushes for our sex.
Men say we're slippery rogues--"
Calonice: "And aren't they right?
Aristophanes
#44. I'm one of the
freaks, the faggots,
the geeks, the savages,
rogues, rebels, dissident devils,
artists, martyrs, infidels ...
do we sit still
under attack?
or do we start pushing back?
never back up
never back down
& FIGHT.
Otep Shamaya
#45. If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated by motivated men. Rogues and crooks have ideas. So do ordinary folks. But intellectuals are meant to be a breed apart for the same reason rocks aren't gems.
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
#46. Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
Peter Singer
#47. Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
Thomas Jefferson
#48. I have several people among my acquaintances who might be described as 'fearsome rogues.' Did he give a name?
Pamela Belle
#49. All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
Tracy Lawrence
#50. If I must consort with rogues [ ... ] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
Georgette Heyer
#51. Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.
Vladimir Nabokov
#52. I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
Anthony Trollope
#53. There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas
#55. When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.
H.L. Mencken
#56. Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
Gore Vidal
#57. SkyClan's destiny is that we will never live in isolation from other cats. We're not like forest Clans, we can't shut ourselves off entirely from kittypets or rogues. And visitors will be welcome.
Erin Hunter
#59. Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.
Julian Sands
#60. A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Jon Meacham
#61. A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Jonathan Swift
#62. He was a good-looking man, but then rogues usually are
Karen Maitland
#63. Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Federica Montseny
#64. Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
Tom Peters
#65. One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
Jim Lee
#67. As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas
#69. An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Friedrich Schiller
#70. For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.
John Dryden
#71. A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Aristophanes
#72. I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
William Shakespeare
#74. 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
#75. Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
Thomas Otway
#76. I'll send a boy round to [the crazy farmer] Martin's and ask him to come by with a couple bottles."
"Get five or six," Bast said. "It's getting cold at night. Winter's coming."
The innkeeper smiled. "I'm sure Martin will be flattered.
Patrick Rothfuss
#77. 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
#78. In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
H.L. Mencken
#80. Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
Emile Zola
#82. Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.
Jim Davis
#83. 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
#84. Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
George Crabbe
#85. Rogue states are the main threat to peace and freedom, and they require a strong, comprehensive policy response - a policy that I call 'rogue state rollback,' in which our goal is not simply to contain rogue regimes, but to drive them from power.
John McCain
#86. I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
Ouida
#87. The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
Voltaire
#89. One rogue leads another.
Homer
#90. Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.
Elizabeth Smart
#93. As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
David Korten
#94. A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
#97. The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.
Joe Lieberman
#98. There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.
Ted Gup
#99. 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
#100. Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
Thomas Carlyle
