A Quote by Patricia Wentworth

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

Patricia Wentworth

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Patricia Wentworth
British - Writer
November 10, 1878 - January 28, 1961

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

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

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

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

William Blake

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

Vaclav Havel

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

John Dryden

Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Moby

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. Bu biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Moby

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.