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Knaves Quotes

1.
Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.
Franklin Pierce

Authors on Knaves Quotes: Charles Caleb Colton William Shakespeare George Herbert Voltaire Thomas Otway William Blake William Hazlitt Plutarch Johann Kaspar Lavater George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Alexander Pope Benjamin Franklin Jonathan Swift George Berkeley John Barth James Shirley Anthony Hope Douglas William Jerrold Jean Antoine Petit-Senn James Cook John Dryden Jean de la Bruyere Horace Patricia Wentworth John Gay Karl G. Maeser Jean-Jacques Rousseau Charles Churchill Lord Chesterfield Franklin Pierce John Gower Harold Bloom Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
2.
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
Harold Bloom

3.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
George Berkeley

4.
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
John Barth

5.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
Charles Caleb Colton

6.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch

7.
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

8.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway

9.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt

10.
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Edmund Burke

11.
A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
John Gower

12.
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
Ivan Panin

13.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire

14.
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
Patricia Wentworth

15.
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
Charles Churchill

16.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Charles Caleb Colton

17.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
Horace

18.
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
Alexander Pope

19.
Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
Thomas Otway

20.
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

21.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Douglas William Jerrold

22.
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Jonathan Swift

23.
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare

24.
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
James Shirley

25.
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe

26.
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
John Dryden

27.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch

28.
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
William Hazlitt

29.
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
Charles Caleb Colton

30.
Even knaves may be made good for something.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

31.
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
William Shenstone

32.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.
Lord Chesterfield

33.
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

34.
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
Charles Caleb Colton

35.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo Casanova

36.
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
William Shakespeare

37.
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
George Herbert

38.
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
Anthony Hope

39.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
Benjamin Franklin

40.
My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.
Justin Chadwick

41.
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
William Blake

42.
Knaves will come and knaves will go.
James Cook

43.
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
Charles Caleb Colton

44.
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
William Blake

45.
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser

46.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
George Herbert

47.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

48.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
Voltaire

49.
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
Jean de la Bruyere

50.
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]
George Herbert