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Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery. - Joseph Addison Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. - Bishop George Berkeley 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 Knaves starve not in the land of fools. - Charles Churchill 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. - Charles Caleb Colton Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. - Charles Caleb Colton A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. - William Hazlitt (1) A man is not born a knave; there must be time to make him so, nor is he presently discovered after he becomes one. - Sir John Holt After a long experience in the world, I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy. - Junius (pseudonym, possibly of Sir Philip Francis) The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) Knavery and flattery are blood relations. - Abraham Lincoln Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove; That is--more knave than fool. - Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (act II, sc. 3) Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. - Plutarch, Morals (vol. 1, Of Bashfulness) While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. - Alexander Pope Even knaves may be made good for something. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. - William Shakespeare There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v) A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Kent at II, ii) Whip me such honest knaves! - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i) Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. - James Shirley Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Phormio (V, I, 6) By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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