You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
- Giacomo CasanovaGive fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune`s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
- Alison GossHonest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
- Andrew D'ArcyHistory is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
- Ambrose BierceNothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe