Combat Quote by H. L. Mencken

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

“I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.”

— Muriel Spark

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

— Jonathan Swift

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

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

— J. G. Holland

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

— Anonymous

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

— Anthony Trollope

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

— John Dryden

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

— William Shakespeare

One rogue leads another.

— Homer