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Knavery Quotes
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The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the do That is--more knave than fool. (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.(Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
After a long experience in the world, I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy. (Quote by - Junius)
Whip me such honest knaves! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. (Quote by - Plutarch)
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. (Quote by - Johann Georg von Zimmermann)
Even knaves may be made good for something. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)