A Quote by George Savile

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

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George Savile
English - Politician
July 18, 1726 - January 10, 1784

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

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

William Hazlitt

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

George Herbert

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

William Hazlitt

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

Horace

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

John Dryden

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.

Jane Swisshelm

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Voltaire

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

Patricia Wentworth

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Frances Wright

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Charles Caleb Colton

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

William Hazlitt

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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