Firm Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Firm Honesty Knavery Supple Yield
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add… — Ovid Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth. — John Locke Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist. — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone. — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
