The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
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
Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
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.
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.
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
It is. . . a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
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.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
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.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave. ]
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.