C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Rogue
The rogue has everywhere the advantage.
One rogue leads another.
Great rogues hang the little ones.
When rogues fall out honest men get their own.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
There is nothing but roguery to be found in villanous men.
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
After a long experience of the world, I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy.
Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
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.