Top 33 Knaves And Fools Quotes

#1. Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

William Hazlitt

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#2. Fashion
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Charles Churchill

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#3. You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Giacomo Casanova

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#4. The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

J.C. Ryle

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#5. Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools
Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

Al-Ma'arri

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#6. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools ...

Rudyard Kipling

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#7. Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

Thomas Love Peacock

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#8. Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

Francesco Guicciardini

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#9. Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

Graydon Carter

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#10. Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Charles Churchill

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#11. to do wrong for the wrong's sake only

Edgar Allan Poe

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#12. In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Lord Chesterfield

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#13. King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Sophocles

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#14. It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

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#15. There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is - an assemblage of fools and knaves.

Honore De Balzac

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#16. No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

Thomas Otway

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#17. History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

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#18. By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

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#19. Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

Norm MacDonald

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#20. Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

Abraham Lincoln

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#21. Money does all things,
for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Roger L'Estrange

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#22. If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#23. Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

Michael Bloomberg

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#24. Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...

Charlotte Charke

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#25. Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

Jocelyn Murray

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#26. Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

Andrew Greeley

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#27. It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

Bubba Watson

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#28. If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ...

Rudyard Kipling

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#29. There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

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#30. I don't really regret anything in my life.

Kristin Cavallari

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#31. Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Charles Caleb Colton

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#32. Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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#33. Three seconds doesn't seem like a long time, but when you're gazing into someone's eyes, it's long enough to make a silent promise.

Renee Carlino

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