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A crafty knave needs no broker (Quote by - Ben Jonson)


A knave's religion is always the rottenest thing about him. (Qupote by - John Ruskin)


Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. (Quote by - Bishop George Berkeley)


Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)


HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. (Qupote by - Ambrose Bierce)


Better be a fool than a knave. (Qupote by - Proverb)


He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. (Quote by - George Berkeley)


Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)


We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. (Quote by - Mary Wortley Montagu)


A man is not born a knave; there must be time to make him so, nor is he presently discovered after he becomes one. (Quote by - Sir John Holt)


Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade. (Quote by - John Gay)


Knavery and flattery are blood relations. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)


The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. (Quote by - John Caspar Lavater)


The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)


Knaves starve not in the land of fools. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)



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