Knaves Quotes

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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

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 tree, is more than all.

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

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 certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

A crafty knave needs no broker.

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 the children of our slaves.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

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.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

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 be trampled to death by them.

You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.