Roguery Quotes

#1. There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

William Shakespeare

#2. Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.

Moliere

#4. The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.
Stovepipe Town made a mistake.
"Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Giacomo Casanova

#8. Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Thomas Carlyle

#9. I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

Nat Turner

#10. A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John Gay

#11. A marriage with Christ at the center of it pulls you right out of yourself. It teaches each partner, the husband and the wife, to forget about self for a while in care and sacrifice for the other. We come to ourselves by losing ourselves.

J. Budziszewski

#12. Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

Luka Sulic

#13. I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Mary C. Neal

#14. I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Florence Nightingale

#15. The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?

Neal Shusterman

#16. What's left is palimpsest - one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

Natasha Trethewey

#17. Never call your office while you're on vacation. That's always been one of my hard and fast rules.

William Manchee

#18. Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

Louise L. Hay

#19. Typographers are designers; designers are my people.

Robin Sloan

#20. Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

Joseph Chenier

#21. Whether it's a canvas tote or Givenchy, a day bag you love is essential. It doesn't have to be a fashion It bag of the season, either.

Brad Goreski

#22. Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

Deb Baker