Knave Quotes

46 quotes by 33 authors

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
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
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from… — Jean de la Bruyere
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or… — John Dryden
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. — Alexander Pope
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. — Voltaire
I said you lie, knave!â€ shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. â€œAnd for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!â€ The knight looked plaintively at Roger.… — Gerald Morris
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. — Voltaire
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen… — Jun Mochizuki
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as… — Anthony Hope
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool. — Karl G. Maeser
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as… — George Savile
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this… — Ambrose Bierce

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