Knaves Quotes · Page 3

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we…

— Bruce Cockburn

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

— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

— Edward Young

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Christopher Marlowe

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Karl G. Maeser

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

— George Herbert

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

If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a…

— Aristophanes

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his…

— William Shakespeare

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

“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

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

— John Dryden

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing…

— John Wilmot

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

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

— Lord Chesterfield

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

— Benjamin Franklin

Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine…

— John Armstrong

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

— John Gay