Quotes
Quotes about Knave
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green.
A rascally yea-forsooth knave.
Ham. There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
But he's an arrant knave.
Hor. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.
How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
Whip me such honest knaves.
2 Watch. How if a' will not stand?
Dogb. Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
Ay, knave, because thou strikest as a knight,
Being but knave, I hate thee all the more.
Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
More knave than fool.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]
Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
More knave than fool.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
