 I'm thinking, Pierre, how that damned starving quality Called Honesty got footing in the world. Pierr. Why, powerful Villainy first set it up, For its own ease and safety: honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten...  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 149by Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1864 - 612 pages
...wellsimulated hesitation, Quin delivered passages from Venice Preserved; and in reciting the lines, " Honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten," looked so pointedly at " honest men" to Allen, and at " knaves" to Warburton, that the company were... | |
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