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The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Stationer, that Riddlesden, the attorney, was a very knave.
— Benjamin Franklin
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That ismore knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe
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
Dinner waited for us: steaks and potatoes and manly things, items of a manly meal. Also vodka cranberries.
— Adam P. Knave
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
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
My curse on playsThat 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
But why insult the poor, affront the great?' A knave's a knave, to me, in every state. — Alexander Pope
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
A thousand years of torture rule, The knave who dares to harm a fool." I
— Christopher Moore
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
men crown the knave and scourge the tool that did his will
— Edward Rowland Sill
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
— Patricia Wentworth
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
— William Hazlitt
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
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
— George Herbert
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
Am I thy looking-glass that thou callest me knave?
— Oscar Wilde
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
— John Dryden
What is this place?" "Nothing at all. Everywhere there is. Both at once?" Wereberry offered. — Adam P. Knave
The person who values community will oft be deceived and destroyed by the knave whose heart lies in selfish ambitions. For
— R.A. Salvatore
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
— Charles Caleb Colton
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
— George Herbert
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
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
— William Shakespeare
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
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
— John Dryden
With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time
— Adam P. Knave
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
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
— Plutarch
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
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
— William Shakespeare
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
— William Blake
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
— Lord Chesterfield
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
— Daniel Defoe
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
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
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
— William Shakespeare
O heart, be at peace, becauseNor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats
Better be a foole then a knave.[Better be a fool than a knave.] — George Herbert
A man of wit could not be a knave or villain.
— Aphra Behn
He wasn't anti-gun really - he just wasn't pro-being-shot-at.
— Adam P. Knave
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
HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
— George Bishop Berkeley