Rough Trade may refer to:
- Rough Trade Records, a record label
- Rough Trade (shops), linked but independent London record stores
- Rough Trade (band), a Canadian new wave rock band
- Rough Trade (American Dad!), an episode of American Dad!
- Rough Trade, a slang term for a masculine working class man who has sex with men (sometimes as a male prostitute)
Famous quotes containing the words rough and/or trade:
“Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixt you,—the trade drops at once: and this is the reason ... why travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,—owing to their [the natives’] suspicion ... that there is nothing to be extracted from the conversation ... worth the trouble of their bad language.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)