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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Knavery |
| Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Churchill. | 1 |
| Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used. Shakespeare. | 2 |
| Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery. Addison. | 3 |
| Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. Shirley. | 4 |
| By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. Zimmermann. | 5 |
| While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. Pope. | 6 |
| Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. Bishop Berkeley. | 7 |
| Even knaves may be made good for something. Rousseau. | 8 |
| Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. Colton. | 9 |
| The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. Lavater. | 10 |
| Men, who are knaves individually, are in the mass very honorable people. Montesquieu. | 11 |
| A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. Hazlitt. | 12 |
| The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. Lavater. | 13 |
| A man is not born a knave; there must be time to make him so, nor is he presently discovered after he becomes one. Chief Justice Holt. | 14 |
| After a long experience in the world, I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not unhappy. Junius. | 15 |
| Cunning leads to knavery; it is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery; lying only makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. La Bruyère. | 16 |
| 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. Burke. | 17 |
| A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat; his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another. Colton. | 18 |
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