Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
There are people in the world who begin by being fools and end in being knaves. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave. — William Blake Copy Share Image
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies. — Edward Young 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
To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate… — William Blake Copy Share Image
We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave… — Jane Swisshelm 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
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
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
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
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
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
This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his… — William Shakespeare 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
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
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
