Knave Quotes

“None are so busy as the fool and knave.”

— John Dryden

Scracth a gentlemen and ull find a knave

— Harish Junior

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

— Voltaire

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

— John Dryden

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

— Daniel Defoe

“men crown the knave and scourge the tool that did his will”

— Edward Rowland Sill

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

— George Herbert

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

— William Shakespeare

There are people in the world who begin by being fools and end in being knaves.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— William Blake

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Karl G. Maeser

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

— Justin Chadwick

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— William Hazlitt

“It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.”

— David Hume

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows…

— Henry Ward Beecher

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin…

— Anthony Hope

“Though this knave came something saucily into this world before he was sent for, yet was is mother Fair; there was good…

— William Shakespeare

“As happens in dreams, when a perfectly harmless object inspires us with fear and thereafter is frightening every time we dream of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking…

— William Shakespeare

“LEIA Ah! Gov’nor Tarkin, scurvy knave art thou.”

— Ian Doescher

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

— Plutarch

Be afraid not of a fiend but of a knave friend.

— Olajobi Shade

A crafty knave needs no broker.

— Horace

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

— George Herbert

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

— George Berkeley

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— George Berkeley

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

— Karl G. Maeser

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

— William Shakespeare