Knaves Quotes

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

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

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

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

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.