Knaves Quotes
77 quotes by 55 authors
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
— Giacomo Casanova
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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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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for…
— Thomas Paine
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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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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
— Thomas Otway
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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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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to…
— Denis Diderot
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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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There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to…
— William Hazlitt
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Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by…
— Bruce Cockburn
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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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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That…
— T.H. White
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