In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I said you lie, knave!” shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. “And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!” The knight looked… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is… — 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
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
