Any Quote by Douglas Coupland

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

— John Gay

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…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

— Plutarch

No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his…

— W. C. Fields

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

Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I…

— Alija Izetbegovic

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the…

— Laozi

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy…

— Edward Fitzgerald

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

— William Shakespeare

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

— George Horace Lorimer

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

— Napoleon Bonaparte