Knavery Quotes

• Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

  Ovid

  Lying, Differences, Add

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• We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Deceit, Add, Purpose

  "Characters", XI, 1688.

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• La bribonería es la mejor defensa contra un bribón.

  Plutarch

  Defense, Knaves

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Of Bashfulness",

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• Un bribón a fondo rara vez discutirá con alguien a quien pueda engañar: su venganza es el saqueo; por eso suele ser el más indulgente de los seres, basándose en el principio de que si llega a una ruptura abierta, debe defenderse; y esto no conviene a un hombre cuya vocación es mantener las manos en el bolsillo de otro.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Venganza, Hombres, Manos

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). "Lacon: O muchas cosas en pocas palabras, dirigido a los que piensan"

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• There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dwelling, Knaves, Denmark

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 123

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• Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Used

  William Shakespeare, E.A.J. Honigmann (1996). “Othello: Third Series”, p.182, A&C Black

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• Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

  Joseph Addison

  Sospechoso

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

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Knaves, Fool

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

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• While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

  Alexander Pope

  Noble, Credit, World

  Alexander Pope (1796). “The Beauties of Pope, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages: Selected from the Works of that Admired Author : as Well as from His Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, &c”, p.230

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• Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

  Plutarch

  Doctrine, Knaves, Firsts

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

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• Moda... una palabra que los bribones y los tontos pueden usar, para excusar su bajeza y su locura.

  Charles Churchill

  Fashion, Use, May

  1761 The Rosciad, l.455-6.

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• Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

  Charles Churchill

  Land, Knaves, Fool

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.223

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• Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

  George Berkeley

  Knaves, Thorough

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Honesty, Knaves, Worst

  "Aforismos sobre el hombre. Traducido del manuscrito original del reverendo John Caspar Lavater, ciudadano de Zuric ; [Una línea de Juvenal]" por Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• La esclavitud parece ser un rasgo tan llamativo de sus habitantes que puede que al final no sea un mal que se conviertan en extranjeros a este reino.

  Jorge III

  America, Evil, Kingdoms

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• La esclavitud y la adulación son parientes consanguíneos.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humor, Blood, Flattery

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• Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Honesty, Yield, Firm

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). "Lacon: O muchas cosas en pocas palabras, dirigido a los que piensan"

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

  Aphra Behn

  Brave, World, Better Days

  1682 The Roundheads, act1, sc.1.

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• Even knaves may be made good for something.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  May, Knaves, Made

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• Un cuadro es una cosa que requiere tanta astucia, tanta malicia y tanto vicio como la perpetración de un crimen. Hazlo falso y añádele un acento de verdad.

  Edgar Degas

  Vices, Add, Crime

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). "La charla de taller de Edgar Degas"

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

  Voltaire

  Knaves, Fool

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• Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Knaves, Fool, Dove

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• But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

  David Hume

  Believe, Men, Law

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.139, tredition

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• There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Would Be, Cases

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3673, Delphi Classics

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

  James Shirley

  Knaves, Honest, Thrive

  James Shirley (1793). “The Maid's Revenge. A Tragedy [in Five Acts, in Prose and Verse].”, p.38

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