Knavery famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
-- Aphra Behn -
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
-- Charles Churchill -
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
-- Charles Churchill -
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 -
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
-- George Berkeley -
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 -
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
-- James Shirley -
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann