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A crafty knave needs no broker.
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
Even knaves may be made good for something.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.
Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
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.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
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 I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
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.
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!