28 Quotations with Knave.
- 1. C. C. Colton: Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than stra ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 5. Earl of Kent: A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, t ...
- 6. Herman Melville: Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and ...
- 7. Alexander Hamilton: Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his act ...
- 8. John Dryden: None are so busy as the fool and knave.
- 9. William Hazlitt: A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides o ...
- 10. John Greenleaf Whittier: Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fa ...
- 11. Thomas Fuller: He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of ...
- 12. George Berkeley: He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself ...
- 13. Thomas Otway: Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
- 14. Harold Bloom: I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike -- and I don't ...
- 15. King George III: Knavery seems to be so much a striking feature of its inhabitants that it may no ...
- 16. Edmund Burke: Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to ...
- 17. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young ...
- 18. Samuel Butler: There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have en ...
- 19. William Shakespeare: This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- ...
- 20. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes p ...
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