Knave Quotes
46 quotes by 33 authors
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave…
— Lord Chesterfield
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
— George Berkeley
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
— Daniel Defoe
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
— William Shakespeare
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone,…
— William Shakespeare
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It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
— David Hume
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He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
— Karl G. Maeser
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Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
— William Blake
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be…
— William Blake
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
— John Dryden
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How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or…
— Ann Radcliffe
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A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a…
— C.S. Lewis
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Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
— Horace
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a…
— William Hazlitt
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A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A crafty knave needs no broker.
— Horace
Who Wrote These Knave Quotes
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