#knave

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

— Samuel Butler

#enough #fools #knaves #live #more

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#always #better #fear #greater #grows

Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flattery #knavery #relations

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#clubs #free #free agents #hearts #knave

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#easy #fatten #honest #honest men #knaves

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

#cunning #difference #knavery #leads #lying

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. ↗

— George Savile

#cunning #enough #fool #knave #man

Still, the car started, so we drove off to the movies. Popcorn happened. Previews, ads, and an annoying kid all went down like clockwork. The picture started and then ended a while later, the world unchanged by its passing. ↗

— Adam P. Knave

#horror #movies

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

— Alexander Pope

#destroy #knave #make #makes #patriot

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#about #account #brought #events #false