Knaves Quotes

77 Knaves quotes by 55 unique authors

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. — James Shirley
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or… — John Dryden
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools… — Francesco Guicciardini
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. — Alexander Pope
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. — Voltaire
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a… — John Greenleaf Whittier
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth… — William Shakespeare
I said you lie, knave!” shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. “And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!” The knight looked plaintively at Roger.… — Gerald Morris
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. — Voltaire
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen… — Jun Mochizuki
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as… — Anthony Hope
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. — Samuel Butler
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a… — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
There are people in the world who begin by being fools and end in being knaves. — Vikrant Parsai
We pillage, we plunder we rifle and loot, we kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. We extort, we pilfer we filch and sack,… — Pirates Of The Carribean
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves,… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. — Thomas Fuller
Whip me such honest knaves. — Othello

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