A Quote by William Hazlitt
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
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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.
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.
Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.]
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
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.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.
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.
This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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