quotes about Knaves
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
-- Alexander Pope -
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
-- Alexander Pope -
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 I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
-- Anthony HopeSource : Anthony Hope (2011). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.94, House of Stratus
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Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
-- Charles Churchill -
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Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...
-- Charlotte CharkeSource : Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”
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Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
-- Daniel DefoeSource : 'The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe' (1720) ch. 2
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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 -
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
-- George Berkeley -
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
-- Ivan Panin -
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Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
-- James ShirleySource : James Shirley (1793). “The Maid's Revenge. A Tragedy [in Five Acts, in Prose and Verse].”, p.38
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By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
-- John GowerSource : John Gower (1857). “Confessio amantis”, p.147
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He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
-- Karl G. MaeserSource : Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.
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Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
-- Patricia Wentworth -
Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
-- Thomas Otway -
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17
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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 a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
-- William Blake -
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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
-- William Butler Yeats -
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.
-- William Shenstone -
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
-- George Villiers, 1st Duke of BuckinghamSource : "The Works of His Grace, George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, Volume 2". Book by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ("Letter to Mr. Clifford, on his Human Reason", p. 105), 1770.
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My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.
-- Justin ChadwickSource : "Justin Chadwick and the Madiba Effect". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2013.
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