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
You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield 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
We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny. — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. — Horace Copy Share Image
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt… — Thomas Paine 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
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin… — Anthony Hope Copy Share Image
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
