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Tag Name "Knave" (56)

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Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
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True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool, but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
James Ellis
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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 a knave.
Jean de la Bruyere
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
John Dryden
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Alexander Pope
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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 said, Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head! Well... that's too bad... no more heads to cut.
Jun Mochizuki
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A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave
C. S. Lewis
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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
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Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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 not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
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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 our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
Voltaire
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
William Blake
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It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
David Hume
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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
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Earth bears no balsams for mistakes Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.
Edward Rowland Sill
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
William Hazlitt
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Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool and of many a good man, a knave.
Frances Wright
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I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Berkeley
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You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
William Shakespeare
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