Knavery Quotes

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

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

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

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

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

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

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

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

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

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

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

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

Even knaves may be made good for something.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

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

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.