Knavery Quotations | Page 2

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

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.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

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.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.