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Knaves Quotes

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves Picture Quote #1

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them Picture Quote #1

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves Picture Quote #1

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull Picture Quote #1

Knaves starve not in the land of fools Picture Quote #1

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live Picture Quote #1

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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten Picture Quote #1

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty Picture Quote #1

Knaves will come and knaves will go Picture Quote #1

There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause Picture Quote #1

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools Picture Quote #1

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon Picture Quote #1

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Fine speeches are the instruments of fools or knaves, who use them when they want good sense; but honesty needs no disguise or ornament Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed Picture Quote #1

Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats Picture Quote #1

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools Picture Quote #1

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny Picture Quote #1

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 or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star Picture Quote #1

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Fashion - a word which knaves and fools may use, their knavery and folly to excuse Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools Picture Quote #1

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So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves (Knaves Quotes) Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them (Knaves Quotes) The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves (Knaves Quotes) By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull (Knaves Quotes) Knaves starve not in the land of fools (Knaves Quotes) Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live (Knaves Quotes) Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten (Knaves Quotes) The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty (Knaves Quotes) Knaves will come and knaves will go (Knaves Quotes) There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause (Knaves Quotes) You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools (Knaves Quotes) There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon (Knaves Quotes) Fine speeches are the instruments of fools or knaves, who use them when they want good sense; but honesty needs no disguise or ornament (Knaves Quotes) 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 (Knaves Quotes) I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed (Knaves Quotes) Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs! (Knaves Quotes) 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. (Knaves Quotes) 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 (Knaves Quotes) I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats (Knaves Quotes) Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools (Knaves Quotes) Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny (Knaves Quotes) 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 or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions (Knaves Quotes) 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 (Knaves Quotes) 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 disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star (Knaves Quotes) Fashion - a word which knaves and fools may use, their knavery and folly to excuse (Knaves Quotes) 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 (Knaves Quotes) History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools (Knaves Quotes)