Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces."
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Tracy Lawrence
Musician
"All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues."
Emile Zola
Novelist
"Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"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."
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"A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another."
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"You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'."
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"Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain."
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"O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out."
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"The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant."
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"China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations"
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"We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?"
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"He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue."
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"Little rogues easily become great ones."
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"There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men."
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"Away, you mouldy rogue, away!"
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"Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish."
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"Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!"
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"What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues."
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"An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist."
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"The rogue has everywhere the advantage."
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"One rogue leads another."
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