Rogues Quotes

• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Dens, Wide

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.297, Library of America

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• 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

  Love, Medicine, Medical

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• 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

  Jesus, Ambition, Tyrants

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Alternatives, Politics

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.

  Aaron Allston

  Running, Wraith

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• As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Medicine, Criminals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

  Aristophanes

  Cat, Men, Tails

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• Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Truth, Honesty, Character

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Little rogues easily become great ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Poor Richard, Great Ones

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.235, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

  Tom Peters

  Progress, Products

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• Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

  Robin Sloan

  Warrior, Guy, Doe

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Great rogues hang the little ones.

  Cardinal Mazarin

  Littles

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• Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Ifs

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• Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

  Sophocles

  Army, Men, Space

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

  Anthony Trollope

  Honesty, Thinking

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “The Three Clerks: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Honesty, Hands, Coward

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Fiddlers

  1711 Journal to Stella, 25 July.

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• Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Teamwork, Men, People

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXV: Of Laws in Relation to the Establishment of Religion and its External Polity, Ch. 2: Of the Motives of Attachment to Different Religions, 1748.

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• 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

  Two, People, Way

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• Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Vagabonds, Actors, Ought

  "Calendar girl" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fine, Worst, Died

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Honesty, Spring, Heart

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• Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

  Henry Fielding

  Honesty, Fool, Favour

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Cunning, Devilish, Laughable

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Found

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, KING RICHARD II. THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.. VOLUME the FIFTH”, p.143

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