Sentences with phrase «for knave»

Her record stands at # 446,500 for Knave (2011), achieved at Christie's in October 2015.

Not exact matches

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master, If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build»em up with worn - out tools:

There will always be «knaves that will twist your words to make a trap for fools.»

So unless people want to have the truth they've spoken «twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools» they might want to avoid going on TV stations run by dictatorships.

David Seltzer was educated at the Northwestern University School for Film and Television before collaborating with another to adapt Nabokov's King, Queen, Knave to the screen in 1972.

Speculating about the level of the market is a pastime for fools and knaves, as I have amply demonstrated in the past (or, as Edgar Allen Poe would have it, «I have great faith in fools — self - confidence my friends will call it.»).

This was evidenced by an energetic start to the evening with new artist records set for artists including Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, whose Knave (2011) sold for # 446,500 ($ 690,736 / $ 605,454) over five times its pre-sale high estimate of # 80,000.

The following extract from «The World Backwards» gives some impression of the inter-connectedness of culture at the time: «David Burliuk's knowledge of modern art movements must have been extremely up - to - date, for the second Knave of Diamonds exhibition, held in January 1912 (in Moscow) included not only paintings sent from Munich, but some members of the German Die Brücke group, while from Paris came work by Robert Delaunay, Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger, as well as Picasso.

The Knave of Hearts, the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts will testify for the Crown and Alice, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter will testify for the defence.

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor walk too wise: If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build»em up with worn - out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch - and - toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the WILL which says to them: «Hold On!»

Hi Ross: I am prepared for anything after dealing with trolls herein like the incredible invisible sidewinding snake, Dave The Knave (He's Gon na Cave).