Knavery Quotes

29 quotes by 23 authors

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. — Woodrow Wilson
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it… — Edgar Degas
Instead of recognizing the State as â€˜the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,â€™ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it… — Albert J. Nock
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that… — Ovid
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way… — David Hume
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events… — David Hume
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. — Aphra Behn
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. — Charles Caleb Colton
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
Even knaves may be made good for something. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than… — James Russell Lowell
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare
Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. — William Shakespeare
Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery. — Joseph Addison
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. — Charles Churchill

Who Wrote These Knavery Quotes

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