I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair. "What are you doing here?" she asked Perry. Stovepipe Town made a mistake. "Oh, looking… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts.… — Jun Mochizuki Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde… — John Gower Copy Share Image
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
