There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward,… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair. "What are you doing here?" she asked Perry. Stovepipe Town made a mistake. "Oh, looking… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
I said you lie, knave!” shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. “And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!” The knight looked… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts.… — Jun Mochizuki Copy Share Image
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“When the Many are rulers, it cannot but be that, again, knavery is bred in the state; but now the knaves do… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11. — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave. — William Blake Copy Share Image
