Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves , both irreconcilable foes to truth.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder.
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you.
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!
