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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. -- Alexander Pope
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
Rogues, would you live forever? -- Frederick the Great
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. -- Helen Mirren
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost. -- Douglas William Jerrold
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty. -- Anthony Trollope
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
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
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
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
A rogue is a roundabout fool. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. -- Jonathan Swift
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. -- Oscar Wilde
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how. -- William Hazlitt
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. -- Baron de Montesquieu
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. -- Emma Goldman
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish. -- Thomas Carlyle
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out. -- William Butler Yeats
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave. -- Edward Abbey
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
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. -- Henry Fielding
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
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
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. -- Clarence Darrow
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India. -- Winston Churchill
Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided. -- Thomas Jefferson
Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. -- Michael Moore
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. -- Alexandre Dumas
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. -- Baron de Montesquieu
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Great rogues hang the little ones. -- Cardinal Mazarin
Little rogues easily become great ones. -- Benjamin Franklin
Progress is mostly the product of rogues. -- Tom Peters
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law. -- J. G. Holland
When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own. -- Matthew Hale
All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues. -- Tracy Lawrence
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces. -- Jonathan Swift
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. -- Horace Walpole
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off! -- J. K. Rowling
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart. -- Voltaire
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
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. -- Nabokov Vladimir
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
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

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