Knaves Quotes

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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
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
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
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
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley
Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. — Thomas Otway
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. — Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. — Mary Wortley Montagu
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. — David Hume
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool. — Karl G. Maeser
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
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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