Quotes of Rogue - somelinesforyou

“ Why should the devil have all the good tunes? ”

- Rowland Hill

“ Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text. ”

- William James

“ The bastard! He doesn't exist! ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. ”

- George Berkeley

“ The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time. ”

- Richard Nixon

“ Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Bid the Devil take the slowest. ”

- Matthew

“ Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. ”

- John Milton

“ The devil himself is good when he is pleased. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ And bid the devil take the hin'most. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ The bane of all that dread the Devil! ”

- William Wordsworth

“ The world, the flesh, the devil. ”

- Book of Common Prayer

“ The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ To the devil with those who published before us. ”

- Aelius Donatus

“ He must needs go that the devil drives. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Perfectionists are their own devils. ”

- Jack Kirby

“ We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be. ”

- Slobodan Milosevic

“ Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. ”

- John Gay

“ The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out. ”

- W. B. Yeats

“ 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 are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. ”

- John Gay

“ As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ 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. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition. ”

- Marquis de Sade
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