Former Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Even knaves may be made good for something.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

— James Shirley

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

— Charles Churchill

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

— Alexander Pope

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

— Plutarch

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

— Charles Churchill

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

— Christopher Marlowe

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

— William Shakespeare

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

— William Hazlitt

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.

— Plutarch

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

— George Berkeley

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater