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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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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire
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Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the doveThat is--more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
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Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
William Blake
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A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
Daniel Defoe
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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
William Blake
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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
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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
William Butler Yeats
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
William Hazlitt
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Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.
Franklin Pierce
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It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William Hazlitt
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
George Berkeley
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches one that would circumvent God, might it not?
William Shakespeare
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When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
George Herbert
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
William Shakespeare
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There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
Ivan Panin
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We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.
Jane Swisshelm
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By fools, knaves fatten by bigots, priests are well clothed every knave finds a gull.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope
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