C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | Rogue |
| The rogue has everywhere the advantage. Goethe. | 1 |
One rogue leads another. Homer. | 2 |
Great rogues hang the little ones. Mazarin. | 3 |
When rogues fall out honest men get their own. Sir M. Hale. | 4 |
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Emerson. | 5 |
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost. Douglas Jerrold. | 6 |
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish. Carlyle. | 7 |
There is nothing but roguery to be found in villanous men. Shakespeare. | 8 |
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how. Hazlitt. | 9 |
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. Pope. | 10 |
After a long experience of the world, I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy. Junius. | 11 |
Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain. La Fontaine. | 12 |
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist. Schiller. | 13 |
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. Carlyle. | 14 |
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. | 15 | |
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