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ROGUES

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

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.
      - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
      - William Hazlitt (1)

One rogue leads another.
      - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
      - Douglas William Jerrold

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

Great rogues hang the little ones.
      - Jules Mazarin (Giulio Mazarini)

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 (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee)

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
      - Alexander Pope

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.
      - William Shakespeare


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