A Quote by Anthony Hope

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Anthony Hope

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Anthony Hope
British - Novelist
February 9, 1863 - July 8, 1933

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

George Berkeley

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.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Daniel Defoe

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

George Herbert

A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

Daniel Defoe

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

George Herbert

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.