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

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A crafty knave needs no broker.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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