Quotes by Knaves Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. Thomas Otway knaves honesty men Avoid the politic, the factious fool, Thomas Otway mutiny knaves talking God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. Voltaire knaves devil Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. Voltaire knaves knavery fool Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science. William Blake knaves men ideas The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave. William Blake knaves self men I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. William Hazlitt knaves wells fool A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. William Hazlitt knaves knavery thinking It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave. William Shenstone knaves honesty pain An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. William Shakespeare knaves honesty men You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. William Shakespeare knaves sassy There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. William Shakespeare knaves knavery dwelling «123