Knaves Quotes

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

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

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

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

A crafty knave needs no broker.

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

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

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

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

Even knaves may be made good for something.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

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!

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.