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title: "4 Knaves Quotes By Thomas Otway"
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> [No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/no-flattery-boy-an-honest-man-cannot-live-by-it-it-is-a-little/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

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> [Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/honest-men-are-the-soft-easy-cushions-on-which-knaves-repose-and/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

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> [Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/avoid-the-politic-the-factious-fool-the-busy-buzzing-talking-harden-d/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

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> [You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/you-talk-to-me-in-parables-you-may-have-known-that-i-m-no-wordy-man/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

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## Other authors on Knaves

## More by Thomas Otway

> [Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/love-reigns-a-very-tyrant-in-my-heart/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/no-flattery-boy-an-honest-man-cannot-live-by-it-it-is-a-little/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/you-wags-that-judge-by-rote-and-damn-by-rule/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/who-s-a-prince-or-beggar-in-the-grave/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [The poor sleep little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/the-poor-sleep-little/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/o-woman-lovely-woman-nature-made-thee-to-temper-man-we-had-been/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [And for an apple damn'd mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/and-for-an-apple-damn-d-mankind/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [Children blessings seem, but torments are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/children-blessings-seem-but-torments-are/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/let-us-embrace-and-from-this-very-moment-vow-an-eternal-misery/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/there-is-such-sweet-pain-in-parting-that-i-could-hang-forever-on/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/if-we-must-part-for-ever-give-me-but-one-kind-word-to-think-upon-and/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/greatness-thou-gaudy-torment-of-out-souls-the-wise-man-s-fetter-and/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [And die with decency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/and-die-with-decency/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/base-natures-ever-judge-a-thing-above-them-and-hate-a-power-they-are/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

> [Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-otway/oh-woman-lovely-woman-nature-made-thee-to-temper-man-we-had-been/)

[Thomas Otway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-otway/)

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