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Knaves starve not in the land of fools. -- Charles Churchill
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. -- Thomas Otway
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
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. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Knaves will come and knaves will go. -- James Cook
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. -- James Shirley
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied. -- Benjamin Franklin
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. -- John Wilmot
Necessity makes an honest man a knave. -- Daniel Defoe
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. -- Voltaire
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
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. -- Plutarch
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. -- David Hume
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. -- Alexander Pope
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence. -- John Dryden
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. -- Alexander Pope
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. -- Christopher Marlowe
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves , both irreconcilable foes to truth. -- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. -- Charles Caleb Colton
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. -- Samuel Butler
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. -- George Berkeley
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
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
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away! -- Lewis Carroll
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. -- Frances Wright
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. -- Lord Chesterfield
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. -- Philip Stanhope
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. -- Francesco Guicciardini
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
Even knaves may be made good for something. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst. -- Franklin Pierce
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them. -- Alexander Pope
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. -- Edmund Burke
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. -- Jonathan Swift
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. -- Charles Churchill
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ... -- Charlotte Charke
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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
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
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on errorâ??s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools. -- Al-MaÊ¿arri
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
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
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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. -- Bruce Cockburn
To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you. -- Zicheng Hong
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! -- Charles Caleb Colton

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