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Knavery and flattery are blood relations. -- Abraham Lincoln
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. -- George III
Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery. -- Joseph Addison
Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. -- William Shakespeare
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. -- Ovid
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Knavery is the best defense against a knave. -- Plutarch
Even knaves may be made good for something. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. -- Charles Churchill
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. -- James Shirley
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. -- William Shakespeare
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. -- George Berkeley
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. -- Charles Churchill
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. -- Plutarch
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. -- Aphra Behn
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. -- Alexander Pope
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. -- William Hazlitt
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth. -- Edgar Degas
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature -- David Hume
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others. -- Edmund Burke
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. -- Woodrow Wilson
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence. -- William Shakespeare
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work -- David Hume
But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons. -- S. S. Van Dine

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