Charles Caleb Colton Knave Quotations

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

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

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

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.