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Knaves Quotes by William Blake
- Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
- Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be…
More Knaves Quotes
- 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… — Giacomo Casanova
- The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and… — Lord Chesterfield
- When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt… — 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… — 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,… — 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