Quotes
Quotes about Knave
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.
In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness, Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts, Upon malicious knavery does thou come To start my quiet.
Better be a fool than a knave.
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.
A knaveâs religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.
Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove; That is--more knave than fool.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.
Whip me such honest knaves!
Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
Your pettifoggers damn their souls, To share with knaves in cheating fools.
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Out of our reach the gods have laid Of time to come th' event, And laugh to see the fools afraid Of what the knaves invent.
So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel: Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell, Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!
