Quotes by Knavery Knavery and flattery are blood relations. Abraham Lincoln knavery humor blood While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. Alexander Pope knavery credit noble A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. Aphra Behn knavery brave world Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. Charles Caleb Colton knavery yield honesty Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Charles Churchill knaves knavery land Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Charles Churchill knavery fashion use Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. Christopher Marlowe knaves knavery fool 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 knavery way past 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 knavery vices add 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 knavery would-be men Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. Francois de La Rochefoucauld knavery giving people Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. George Berkeley knaves thorough knavery Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. James Shirley knaves knavery honest We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. Jean de la Bruyere knavery deceit add We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Jean de la Bruyere knavery deception people Even knaves may be made good for something. Jean-Jacques Rousseau knaves knavery may By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann gulls knaves knavery The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. Johann Kaspar Lavater knaves knavery honesty Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery. Joseph Addison suspicious knavery 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 knavery differences lying 12»