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Tag Name "Knaves" (25)

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Knaves will come and knaves will go.
James Cook
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Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
James Shirley
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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?
Abraham Lincoln
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
Alexander Pope
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There are three difficulties in authorship-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game in which the Booksellers are the Kings The Critics the Knaves the Public, the Pack and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.
Franklin Pierce
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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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
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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.
Lord Chesterfield
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Thomas Otway
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You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.
Thomas Otway
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Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report moreover, they have spoken untruths secondarily, they are slanders sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady thirdly, they have verified unjust things and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
William Shakespeare
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To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.
Zicheng Hong
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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.
Al-Maʿarri
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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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
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By fools, knaves fatten by bigots, priests are well clothed every knave finds a gull.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
John Dryden
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Jonathan Swift
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Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.
Roger L'Estrange
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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
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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
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