Knaves Quotes · Page 3

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

— Justin Chadwick

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

— William Blake

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Thomas Otway

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

— Harold Bloom

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

— Jonathan Swift

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

— John Gay

To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own…

— Zicheng Hong

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate…

— William Blake

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave…

— Jane Swisshelm

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it,…

— Anonymous

“It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And…

— Lewis Carroll

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin…

— Anthony Hope

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in…

— William Hazlitt

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…

— Thomas Paine

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men…

— Francesco Guicciardini

You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves…

— Thomas Otway

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it…

— William Shakespeare

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare…

— William Hazlitt

We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of…

— T. H. White

It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into…

— Clinton Lee Scott

To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…

— Denis Diderot

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

— George Berkeley

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— James Shirley

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

— Roger L'Estrange

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

— George Herbert

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

— Saadi

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

— John Dryden

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

— Horace

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

— William Shakespeare

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

— George Herbert

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

— Charlotte Charke