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Quotes About Rogues

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
Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.
~ Jonathan Banks
On the contrary, he would come home and rail at both parties with great wrath—and plainly proved one day to the satisfaction of my wife, and three old ladies who were drinking tea with her, that the two parties were like two rogues, each tugging at the skirt of the nation; and that in the end they would tear the very coat off its back, and expose its nakedness.
~ Washington Irving
Batman has what is quite possibly the best rogues' gallery every created. People who have never read a comic can name half a dozen of his foes, and that's barely scratching the surface.
~ Gail Simone
All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.
~ Wilbur Smith
I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
~ Anthony Trollope
If you want to know where God is, look where God is unendingly sharing the divine presence. The space between us and the bible isn't a tragically empty vacuum. It is a resplendent party, full of angels and saints and not a few rogues, and there's a place for you and me. The host is Jesus alone.
~ Jason Byassee
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.
~ Geoffrey Rush
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The priest splayed his digits wide. "Herdmaster, I learn. Later I will speak." "You do not seem pleased." There was no answer. "A place of puzzles," Pastempeh-keph said. "They surrender and have not surrendered. Their tapes show rogues acting in collusion. They live neither in herds nor alone. What are they?" "What do they believe themselves to be?" Fistarteh-thuktun asked. "Perhaps that is more important.
~ Larry Niven
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 are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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
What is scripture, then? It's a hint, a clue, not a description. The fanaticism of one sincere believer who thinks he knows causes more evil than the united efforts of two hundred rogues. It's terrifying to see what sincere believers will do because they think they know.
~ Anthony de Mello
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
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
Lankhmar City would feed me, aye, feed me well—and be paid only with lumps and perhaps a deep scratch or two. So to Lankhmar I went. Falling in there with a clever girl of the same turn of mind and some experience, I did well for two full rounds of moons and a few more. We worked only in black garb, and called ourselves to ourselves the Dark Duo.
~ Fritz Leiber
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
Texas "the ark of safety to swindlers, gamblers, robbers and rogues
~ Gary May
I don't want no notoriety. I wants to earn my bread peaceable, and to be let alone when I'm about my own business. I pays rates for the police to look after rogues, not to haul folks about and lock 'em up for days and nights, who is doing what they has a legal right to do.
~ Anthony Trollope
Lysistrata: Calonice, it's more than I can bear, I am hot all over with blushes for our sex. Men say we're slippery rogues-- Calonice: And aren't they right?
~ Aristophanes
If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
~ Georgette Heyer