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
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
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
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. — Aphra Behn 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
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
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley 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