Knaves quotes
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
-- Alexander Pope -
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
-- Alexander Pope -
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.
-- Anthony Hope -
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
-- Charles Churchill -
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Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...
-- Charlotte Charke -
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
-- Daniel Defoe -
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
-- Daniel Defoe -
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That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
-- George Berkeley -
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 Casanova -
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
-- Ivan Panin -
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Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
-- James Shirley -
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
-- John Gower -
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
-- Karl G. Maeser -
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Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
-- Patricia Wentworth -
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.
-- Thomas Otway -
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
-- Thomas Otway -
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.
-- William Blake -
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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
-- William Butler Yeats -
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.
-- William Shenstone -
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
-- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham -
My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.
-- Justin Chadwick -
