Rogues Quotes - Page 3

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

  Carl Bernstein

  New York, Years, Three

  "Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?". www.newsweek.com. July 9, 2011.

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• A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

  Storm Jameson

  Mean, Honor, Fleas

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• Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
  The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
  The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
  Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
  And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

  Thomas Otway

  Talking, Mutiny, Knaves

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• The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.235, Best Books on

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• Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

  Alexander Pope

  Rags, Ruffles, Countenance

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• A rogue is a roundabout fool.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fool

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.11

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• One rogue leads another.

  Homer

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• It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There can be a lot of differing opinions in a mainstream comic book, you know? "Rogue would never do this!" But I can say, "No, Rogue suffered the death of Charles Xavier and it broke her down and she stumbled into a dark place and she started fixating on the Scarlet Witch as the cause of it all" — which, there is a logical chain of events that lead to the Scarlet Witch. And in the confusion, she thought Wanda was up to doing it again and she did what she thought was best.

  Rick Remender

  Book, Character, Dark

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• Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Bully, Soul, Machines

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• Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

  Jared Polis

  Intellectual, Stealing, Resources

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• You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.

  John Romero

  World, Want, Stealth

  "The future of games is freedom". Interview with Alexander Gambotto-Burke, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2006.

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• 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

  Men, Hundred, Process

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.97

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• The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Advantage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Dramatic works: Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont. Transl. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz v. Berlichingen. Transl. by Sir Walter Scott. Carefully rev”, p.364

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• Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

  Thomas Gainsborough

  Talking, Serious, Honest

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• It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Honesty, Men, Credit

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Lost

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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.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Way, Found, Certain

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• The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

  Armstrong Williams

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Long

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• Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

  Sivananda

  Children, Giving Up, Revenge

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• His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Calumny Is, Benefits, Calumny

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• The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Long, Friendly

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• It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter.

  Michael Josephson

  Believe, Character, Justice

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• Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Men, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.53, Modern Library

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• With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

  Sarah Palin

  Election, Should, Stakes

  "Palin to Romney-Ryan: 'Go Rogue'" By Daniel Halper, www.weeklystandard.com. September 22, 2012.

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• How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.

  John Dryden

  Men, Faces, Fool

  1693 A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, 'The Art of Satire'.

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