Knaves Quotes

77 Knaves quotes by 55 unique authors

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. — Thomas Otway
None are so busy as the fool and the knave. — John Dryden
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
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,… — Thomas Jefferson
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them. — Roger L'Estrange
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. — Horace
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them. — Alexander Pope
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
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two… — Harold Bloom
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
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
A crafty knave needs no broker. — Horace
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold
Even knaves may be made good for something. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe
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

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