Knave Quotes

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. Alexander Pope

Patriotism Ambition Destroy Knave Make Makes Same Patriot Save

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. Daniel Defoe

Man Honest Man Knave Makes Necessity Honest

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

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. David Hume

Man Political Every Must Knave Supposed Maxim Just Every Man

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11. Justin Chadwick

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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool. Karl G. Maeser

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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. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Great Fear Degree Fools Too Respectable Respected Though Must Knave Mass Majority Mankind Certain Means Certain Degree Who Number

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

World Fools Live Enough Else Would More Knave Than

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