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Knaves will come and knaves will go.
— James Cook
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
— Samuel Butler
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
— Roger L'Estrange
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Fashion
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
— Alexander Pope
Even knaves may be made good for something.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe
more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
— Charles Caleb Colton
It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!
— E.D.E.N. Southworth
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.
— William Hazlitt
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...
— Charlotte Charke
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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.
— Thomas Otway
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
Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
— Thomas Love Peacock
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
— J.K. Rowling
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
— Charles Churchill
Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.
— John Dunton
The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder.
— Lord Chesterfield
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
— Patricia Wentworth
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
— Benjamin Franklin
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
— George Herbert
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes.
— Frederic Bastiat
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
— William Shakespeare
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
— Charles Caleb Colton
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
— George Herbert
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
— John Dryden
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
— James Shirley
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
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
— Plutarch
A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
— John Gower
We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.
— William Shakespeare
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden
But good men starve for want of impudence. — John Dryden
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
— William Shakespeare
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
— William Blake
If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ...
— Rudyard Kipling
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
— Charles Caleb Colton
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
— William Shakespeare
If I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.
— William Shakespeare
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
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats
Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.] — George Herbert
[Better be a fool than a knave.] — George Herbert
There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is - an assemblage of fools and knaves.
— Honore De Balzac