A rogues gallery (or rogues' gallery) is a police collection of pictures or photographs of criminals and suspects kept for identification purposes. The term is also used figuratively by extension for any group of shady characters or the line-up of 'mugshot' photographs that might be displayed in the halls of a dormitory or workplace.
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Famous quotes containing the words rogues and/or gallery:
“But soon a wonder came to light,
That showed the rogues they lied:
The man recover’d of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)