The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an… — George III Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If one of you sees, sometime, something unedifying and so much as goes on to pass it on and put it into… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
