Top 33 Knavery Quotes
#1. ACKBAR - O knavery Most vile, O trick of Empire's basest wit. A snare, a ruse, a ploy: and we the fools. What great deception hath been plied today - O rebels, do you hear? Fie, 'tis a trap!
Ian Doescher
#2. Now Thorndyke is going to enjoy himself. To him a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy forever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery.
R. Austin Freeman
#3. Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
#4. Fashion
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Charles Churchill
#5. Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
#7. It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.
Charles Caleb Colton
#8. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#9. I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.
William Shakespeare
#11. We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
Jean De La Bruyere
#13. Knavery?" Art3mis said after she'd finished reading it. "Were you using a thesaurus when you wrote this?
Ernest Cline
#14. Very well. On my love for Mencheres, I swear that I will honor both you and Leila as my true partners, and I will keep my insolence, trickiness , filthiness, and general knavery to as much a minimum as I can manage.
Jeaniene Frost
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature
David Hume
#18. A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn
#19. 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
#20. In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
Woodrow Wilson
#22. We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.
Jean De La Bruyere
#23. Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
George III
#24. But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.
S. S. Van Dine
#26. Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
#27. Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
James Shirley
#28. 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
#29. Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
George Berkeley
#31. A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
William Hazlitt
