Top 93 Knave Quotes
#1. Said the Knave, I didn't write it and they can't prove that I did; there's no name signed at the end.
Lewis Carroll
#2. I said you lie, knave!" shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. "And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!"
The knight looked plaintively at Roger. "What's wrong with this fellow?"
He was dropped on his head when he was a baby," answered Roger.
Gerald Morris
#3. Though this knave came something saucily into this world before he was sent for, yet was is mother Fair; there was good sport at his making, and the Whoreson must be acknowledged.
William Shakespeare
#4. None are so busy as the fool and knave.
John Dryden
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. A thousand years of torture rule, The knave who dares to harm a fool." I
Christopher Moore
#8. Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.
Frances Wright
#9. 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
#10. Knave of hearts and bane to all women, be it known that you must win your tournament for me, otherwise I shall have a most difficult time explaining to my new lord my newest addition.
-A letter to Stryder, from Rowena
Kinley MacGregor
#11. 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
#12. Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.]
George Herbert
#13. HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Bishop Berkeley
#14. A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.
John Gower
#15. He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser
#16. 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
C.S. Lewis
#17. Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
John Gay
#18. O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake.
William Butler Yeats
#19. Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
Horace
#20. 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.
William Blake
#21. It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
Charles Caleb Colton
#22. God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
Voltaire
#23. Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Plutarch
#24. 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.
Jean De La Bruyere
#25. 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.
James Ellis
#26. 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.
William Shenstone
#27. 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
#28. He had always thought her beautiful - for a peasant girl. But with that golden hair falling around her, it made her face and eyes glow like some kind of enchantment. He was thinking like an addle-headed knave.
Melanie Dickerson
#30. The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#31. I've been a foul-mouthed knave." "Well, I don't know." "A beetle-headed malfeasor." "Nothing so - " "A base, proud tottyhead." He paused, but she said nothing. "Aren't you going to object?" "No," she drawled the word. "Humility is so refreshing in a man.
Christina Dodd
#32. The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well ... that's too bad ... no more heads to cut.
Jun Mochizuki
#33. Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
#34. How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Ann Radcliffe
#35. I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt
#37. The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
#39. A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
William Hazlitt
#40. He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser
#41. We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#42. Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
Lord Chesterfield
#43. The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope
#44. Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
Patricia Wentworth
#45. 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.
George Savile
#47. A man of wit could not be a knave or villain.
Aphra Behn
#48. A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
William Hazlitt
#49. 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.
Thomas Otway
#50. Am I thy looking-glass that thou callest me knave?
Oscar Wilde
#51. 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
#52. But why insult the poor, affront the great?'
A knave's a knave, to me, in every state.
Alexander Pope
#53. It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
David Hume
#54. The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield
#55. Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
Charles Caleb Colton
#56. 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
#57. Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
#58. The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
Ivan Panin
#59. And for more egregious offenses, you need to get rid of the knave, quickly. Think
Eric Schmidt
#60. While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Alexander Pope
#61. My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
Justin Chadwick
#62. The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree;
The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee.
Walter Raleigh
#63. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
William Shakespeare
#64. The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
William Blake
#65. 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
#66. That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.
Saadi
#69. There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
#70. Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire
#71. When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
George Herbert
#73. None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
John Dryden
#74. Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
George Berkeley
#76. The person who values community will oft be deceived and destroyed by the knave whose heart lies in selfish ambitions. For
R.A. Salvatore
#77. Earth bears no balsams for mistakes;
Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool
That did his will: but thou, O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool.
Edward Rowland Sill
#78. 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
#79. You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd:
Whip me such honest knaves.
William Shakespeare
#80. There's something weird about that guy, she whispers as she slips into the car, bringing an unexpected smile to my face.
Ah, Ariel. Some might say she has poor taste, but I cant help but be flattered.
Take that, knight in shining armor. This lady prefers the knave.
Stacey Jay
#81. A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
Charles Caleb Colton
#82. He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough.
Adam P. Knave
#83. Still, the car started, so we drove off to the movies. Popcorn happened. Previews, ads, and an annoying kid all went down like clockwork. The picture started and then ended a while later, the world unchanged by its passing.
Adam P. Knave
#84. Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers
Adam P. Knave
#85. Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of a thing was just around a corner, but that didn't mean you ever got to see it.
Adam P. Knave
#86. He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.
Adam P. Knave
#87. A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.
Adam P. Knave
#88. What is this place?"
"Nothing at all. Everywhere there is. Both at once?" Wereberry offered.
Adam P. Knave
#89. With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time
Adam P. Knave
#90. Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.
Adam P. Knave
#91. You ate my dog, you undead freak!"
Hey! Watch the slander. I hear the acceptable term is 'corporeally
challenged' now. No need to be rude.
Adam P. Knave
#92. Dinner waited for us: steaks and potatoes and manly things, items of a manly meal. Also vodka cranberries.
Adam P. Knave
#93. He wasn't anti-gun really - he just wasn't pro-being-shot-at.
Adam P. Knave
