Top 23 Knavish Quotes
#2. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.
H.L. Mencken
#3. To say the Truth, I have often concluded, that the honest Part of Mankind would be much too hard for the knavish, if they could bring themselves to incur the Guilt, or thought it worth their while to take the Trouble.
Henry Fielding
#5. The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
Hilaire Belloc
#7. An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire Belloc
#8. Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.
William Shakespeare
#9. Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.
William Mountford
#11. Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.
Philipp Melanchthon
#12. The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.
Francis Chan
#13. The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.
Graham Greene
#15. Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.
Lauren Myracle
#16. X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do
Hubie Brown
#17. There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xun Zi
#18. I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.
Stan Musial
#19. I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.
Martine McCutcheon
#20. She was a mystery, personal in her journey but social in her seek; you wouldn't believe the depth in her heart until the day you felt her essence, for the very first time.
Nikki Rowe
#21. There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
Christopher Fowler
#22. I can't be in touch with the Now, so now I'm feeling guilty about not being in touch with the Now.
Anonymous
#23. I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.
Caitlin Moran
