Knavery Quotes

Knavery Quote of the day

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.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

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.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

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.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

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.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

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