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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
Rogues quotes by William Butler Yeats
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
Rogues quotes by Jim Lee
We are each of us the result of billions of years of the universe evolving toward its own splendor. And evolution builds: the very mitochondria that power our cells and give us life once existed as separate organisms that first infected our pre–pre–human ancestors and then became one with them. We each contain not only the slime mold and the worm, the fish and amphibian and reptile, but the pig and the ape and the barely human. If we look hard enough, we can discern hundreds of parts: kings and queens, warriors and troubadours, mages, bullies, and saints. And hustlers, adventurers, survivors, rebels, reactionaries, and rogues. And the part of us that wants to be more than human, or rather more fully human. I believe that we need to enlist all these separate selves into a single army of free companions who respect each other and love each other to the death. And who are willing to devote their lives to fight together in order to win a shared splendor.
I will return to this theme of integration again and again, for it is key to everything. All of my characters struggle with themselves, and face as well external obstacles such as exploding stars or dragons or icy wastelands cold enough to freeze the breath. Maram, who writes poems glorifying his second chakra (the body's sexual center), pants like a dog after every enticing woman he sees. Even as he resists his essential nobility and destiny as a hero, he insists that every man deserves at least one vice. When it is pointed ~ David Zindell
Rogues quotes by David Zindell
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
Rogues quotes by Vladimir Lenin
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter. ~ Paul Gauguin
Rogues quotes by Paul Gauguin
The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to be granted the mercy of quick release. Publicly humiliated? Yes please. Having all their crappy books remaindered? Definitely. Dragged away from their taxpayer funded troughs and their cushy sinecures, to be replaced by people who actually know what they're talking about? For sure. But hanging? Hell no. Hanging is far too good for such ineffable toerags. ~ James Delingpole
Rogues quotes by James Delingpole
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. ~ Aristophanes
Rogues quotes by Aristophanes
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face. ~ Alexandre Dumas
Rogues quotes by Alexandre Dumas
Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held his book in my hands and trembled as he spoke to me of man and the world, of love and wisdom, pain and guilt, and I knew I would never be the same. His name was Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. He knew more of fathers and sons than any man in the world, and of brothers and sisters, priests and rogues, guilt and innocence. Dostoyevsky changed me. The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov, The Gambler. He turned me inside out. I found I could breathe, could see invisible horizons. The hatred for my father melted. I loved my father, poor, suffering, haunted wretch. I loved my mother too, and all my family. It was time to become a man, to leave San Elmo and go out into the world. I wanted to think and feel like Dostoyevsky. I wanted to write.
The week before I left town the draft board summoned me to Sacramento for my physical. I was glad to go. Someone other than myself could make my decisions. The army turned me down. I had asthma. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
"That's nothing. I've always had it."
"See your doctor."
I got the needed information from a medical book at the public library. Was asthma fatal? It could be. And so be it. Dostoyevsky had epilepsy, I had asthma. To write well a man must have a fatal ailment. It was the only way to deal with the presence of death. ~ John Fante
Rogues quotes by John Fante
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
Rogues quotes by Eugene V. Debs
What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
Make yourselves scabs? ~ William Shakespeare
Rogues quotes by William Shakespeare
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 quotes by Jean De La Fontaine
We have an international system. We all profit from it. Trade profits from it. Peace. We can travel around the world because of it. And part of that system is certain ideas, the certain ideas you can't invade other countries for no reason. You can't commit genocide. You can't - rogue regimes can't have nuclear weapons, and you can't gas your own people. ~ David Brooks
Rogues quotes by David Brooks
The tabby rogue bounded alongside the river until he reached the fallen tree that Sky had used to cross a few days before. Leading Firestar over to the far bank, Scratch started to climb another trail that led up the cliff face on the opposite side. Firestar panted after him, wishing he had the rogue's powerful haunches. Scratch was a true SkyClan cat! ~ Erin Hunter
Rogues quotes by Erin Hunter
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue. ~ Sophocles
Rogues quotes by Sophocles
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
Rogues quotes by Otep Shamaya
cared for no rogues but their own, ~ Walter Scott
Rogues quotes by Walter Scott
Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. ~ George W. Bush
Rogues quotes by George W. Bush
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ~ Bruce Sterling
Rogues quotes by Bruce Sterling
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
Rogues quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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
Rogues quotes by Elizabeth Smart
Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Rogues quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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
Rogues quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Rogues quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter. ~ Michael Josephson
Rogues quotes by Michael Josephson
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
Rogues quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Rogues quotes by Erin Hunter
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
Rogues quotes by Jon Meacham
...the good never suspect others of perpetrating wicked deeds which they themselves are incapable of committing. That is why they are so easily duped by the first rogue who sinks his claws into them, and why it is so easy and so despicable to trick them. ~ Marquis De Sade
Rogues quotes by Marquis De Sade
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
Rogues quotes by Thomas Gainsborough
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
Rogues quotes by C.S. Lewis
He was a good-looking man, but then rogues usually are ~ Karen Maitland
Rogues quotes by Karen Maitland
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
Rogues quotes by Robert McFarlane
Our rogue President, after selling face time ... ~ William Safire
Rogues quotes by William Safire
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. ~ Swami Sivananda
Rogues quotes by Swami Sivananda
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
Rogues quotes by Wilkie Collins
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
Rogues quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. ~ Oscar Wilde
Rogues quotes by Oscar Wilde
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant. ~ Voltaire
Rogues quotes by Voltaire
The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow. ~ Alan Cranston
Rogues quotes by Alan Cranston
She tried to break from his hold, and he tightened his grip. "You're safe. I killed the rogues."
The woman stilled and searched his face, the wildness still heavy in her blue eyes. "You're a wolf."
He smiled and nodded. "And you're a tiger."
"A white tiger."
To match her white-blond hair. "And a beautiful one. ~ Lia Davis
Rogues quotes by Lia Davis
In the first ages they were wise men; in the middle age, madmen; in these latter ages, cunning men: in the earliest time they were honest; in the
middle time, rogues; in these last times, fools: at first they dealt with nature; then with the Devil; and now not with the Devil, or with nature either: in the first ages the magicians were wiser than the people; in the second age, wickeder than the people; and in our age, the people are both wiser and wickeder than the magicians. ~ Daniel Defoe
Rogues quotes by Daniel Defoe
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
Rogues quotes by Naomi Wolf
The place reeked of vice and corruption and the dregs of Parisian society in all its rottenness gathered there: cheats, conmen and cheap hacks rubbed shoulders with under-age dandies, old roués and rogues, sleazy underworld types once notorious for things best forgotten mingled with other small-time crooks and speculators, dabblers in dubious ventures, frauds, pimps, and racketeers. Cheap sex, both male and female, was on offer in this tawdry meat-market of a place where petty rivalries were exploited, and quarrels picked over nothing in an atmosphere of fake gallantry where swords or pistols at dawn settled matters of highly questionable honour in the first place. ~ Guy De Maupassant
Rogues quotes by Guy De Maupassant
The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes), hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections, so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that ~ Bantu Holomisa
Rogues quotes by Bantu Holomisa
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
Rogues quotes by Henry Fielding
Ever since Hugo Waverly had returned to London, he had been keeping on eye on Cedric's sisters, particularly Horatia. Waverly had a way of creating collateral damage and Lucien would do anything to keep these innocent ladies safe. But she mustn't know he was watching over her. He'd spent the last six years being outwardly cold to her, praying she'd stop gazing at him in that sweet, loving way of hers.
It was cruel of him, yes, but if he did not create some distance, he'd have had her on her back beneath him. She was too good a woman for that, and he was far too wicked to be worthy of her. Rather like a demon falling for an angel.

-Lucien's thoughts. His Wicked Seduction (The League of Rogue's book 2) ~ Lauren Smith
Rogues quotes by Lauren Smith
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces. ~ Jonathan Swift
Rogues quotes by Jonathan Swift
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
Rogues quotes by Anthony Scaramucci
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue. ~ H.L. Mencken
Rogues quotes by H.L. Mencken
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
Rogues quotes by Aristophanes
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
Rogues quotes by Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions! ~ Adam Sedgwick
Rogues quotes by Adam Sedgwick
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Rogues quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When Philippa had first demanded his help in eluding Kate and travelling to St Mary's, he had indignantly refused. He was there now because he had discovered, to his astonishment, that she was desperate, and perfectly capable of going without him. Why she had got it into her young head she must see this man Crawford, Cheese-wame didn't know. But after pointing out bitterly that (a) he would lose his job; (b) the rogues in the Debatable would kill them, (c) that she would catch her death of cold and (d) that Kate would never speak to either of them again, he went, his belt filled with knives and her belongings as well as his own in the two saddlebags behind his powerful thighs, while Philippa rode sedately beside him on her smaller horse, green with excitement, with her father's pistol tied to her waist like a ship's log and banging against her thin knees. ~ Dorothy Dunnett
Rogues quotes by Dorothy Dunnett
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
Rogues quotes by Thucydides
We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them too
Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out
And take upon 's the mystery of things
As if we were God's spies. ~ William Shakespeare
Rogues quotes by William Shakespeare
If you want to know the age of the Earth - look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reveal the heart of a man? Between Suez and the China Sea are many nameless men who prefer to live and die unknown. This is the story of one such man. Among the great gallery of rogues and heroes thrown up on the beaches and ports - no man was more respected or more damned than - Lord Jim. ~ Joseph Conrad
Rogues quotes by Joseph Conrad
How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11? ~ Ann Coulter
Rogues quotes by Ann Coulter
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
Rogues quotes by Peter Singer
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart. ~ Voltaire
Rogues quotes by Voltaire
You can be the rabbits - " She paused. "I mean the rogues. ~ Erin Hunter
Rogues quotes by Erin Hunter
I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I think we could try to encourage - and I think this is what diplomacy should do - encourage the self-interests of all parties to believe that it is in their best interest to get evil actors or rogue actors such as Syria or Iran, if you try to have less belligerent and less bellicose behavior. ~ Rand Paul
Rogues quotes by Rand Paul
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
Rogues quotes by Ted Gup
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ~ Alexandre Dumas
Rogues quotes by Alexandre Dumas
When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own. ~ Matthew Hale
Rogues quotes by Matthew Hale
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
Rogues quotes by Gore Vidal
Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~ Jim Davis
Rogues quotes by Jim Davis
There ain't no law in Mexico. It's just a pack of rogues. ~ Cormac McCarthy
Rogues quotes by Cormac McCarthy
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. ~ Charlton Heston
Rogues quotes by Charlton Heston
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
Rogues quotes by Patrick Rothfuss
She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts. ~ Lisa Papademetriou
Rogues quotes by Lisa Papademetriou
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
Rogues quotes by Andrew Kreisberg
Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. ~ Michael Moore
Rogues quotes by Michael Moore
The rogue has everywhere the advantage. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Rogues quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. ~ Tom Wolfe
Rogues quotes by Tom Wolfe
China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. ~ Fred Thompson
Rogues quotes by Fred Thompson
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
Rogues quotes by Sarah M. Eden
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
Rogues quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how. ~ William Hazlitt
Rogues quotes by William Hazlitt
Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to."
"No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission."
"We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to. ~ Aaron Allston
Rogues quotes by Aaron Allston
Don't look so shocked. And please, please don't scream. You and I both knew that this was coming… Yes, yes, it's a mess… but the nails were having trouble penetrating so they had to go. Speaking of which… Could you get that last nail?

Vince Liberato
"Because I was Bored ~ Vince Liberato
Rogues quotes by Vince Liberato
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue. ~ John Dryden
Rogues quotes by John Dryden
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate. ~ George Crabbe
Rogues quotes by George Crabbe
Gentlemen," I said to my officers, "let's talk about discipline within our army, and let's consider our danger from no-account leaders. Unfortunately, such rogues sometimes find more followers than good leaders. Promising everyone a good time with plenty of instant rewards, these scoundrels can exert much more influence than virtuous men, who end up alone on steep, rocky paths. ~ Xenophon
Rogues quotes by Xenophon
The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process. ~ Kal Penn
Rogues quotes by Kal Penn
Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues! ~ Carlo Collodi
Rogues quotes by Carlo Collodi
Progress is mostly the product of rogues. ~ Tom Peters
Rogues quotes by Tom Peters
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty. ~ Anthony Trollope
Rogues quotes by Anthony Trollope
After Death nothing is, and nothing, death,
The utmost limit of a gasp of breath.
Let the ambitious zealot lay aside
His hopes of heaven, whose faith is but his pride;
Let slavish souls lay by their fear
Nor be concerned which way nor where
After this life they shall be hurled.
Dead, we become the lumber of the world,
And to that mass of matter shall be swept
Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
Devouring time swallows us whole.
Impartial death confounds body and soul.
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),
With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,
Are senseless stories, idle tales,
Dreams, whimseys, and no more. ~ John Wilmot
Rogues quotes by John Wilmot
Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers.
Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone? ~ Eoin Colfer
Rogues quotes by Eoin Colfer
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo. ~ Wyndham Lewis
Rogues quotes by Wyndham Lewis
What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover? ~ Simon R. Green
Rogues quotes by Simon R. Green
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of. ~ Terry Pratchett
Rogues quotes by Terry Pratchett
To these statements, Socrates, no one can offer a reply; but when you talk in this way, a strange feeling passes over the minds of your hearers: They fancy that they are led astray a little at each step in the argument, owing to their own want of skill in asking and answering questions; these littles accumulate, and at the end of the discussion they are found to have sustained a mighty overthrow and all their former notions appear to be turned upside down. And as unskilful players of draughts are at last shut up by their more skilful adversaries and have no piece to move, so they too find themselves shut up at last; for they have nothing to say in this new game of which words are the counters; and yet all the time they are in the right. The observation is suggested to me by what is now occurring. For any one of us might say, that although in words he is not able to meet you at each step of the argument, he sees as a fact that the votaries of philosophy, when they carry on the study, not only in youth as a part of education, but as the pursuit of their maturer years, most of them become strange monsters, not to say utter rogues, and that those who may be considered the best of them are made useless to the world by the very study which you extol. ~ Plato
Rogues quotes by Plato
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
Rogues quotes by J.J. Salkeld
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
Rogues quotes by H.L. Mencken
He paused; a grim silence gripped the whole clearing, broken by a contemptious Rumble from Tigerstar. "Mew away, little kittypet. It won't change anything."
Firestar ignored him. "Being deputy wasn't enough," he went on. "Tigerstar wanted to be leader of the clan. He set a trap for Bluestar by the Thunderpath, but my own apprentice strayed into it instead. That's how Cinderpelt came by her crippled leg."
A shocked murmer swept through the clearing. Except for Bloodclan, they all knew of Cinderpelt, she was popular even with cats of other clans.
Then Tigerstar conspired with Brokentail, the fomer leader of ShadowClan, who was ThunderClan's prisoner," Firestar told the listening cats. "He brought a pack of rogues into ThunderClan camp, and tried to murder Bluestar with his own claws. I stopped him, and when ThunderClan had beaten off the attack we drove him into excile. As a rogue, he slaughtered, Runningwind. Then before we knew what he was up too, he had made himself leader of ShadowClan. ~ Erin Hunter
Rogues quotes by Erin Hunter
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon. ~ William Shakespeare
Rogues quotes by William Shakespeare
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Rogues quotes by Thomas Carlyle
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