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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

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. — David Hume

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 is
more 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

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

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 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

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. — Alexander Pope

But why insult the poor, affront the great?'
A knave's a knave, to me, in every state. — Alexander Pope

And for more egregious offenses, you need to get rid of the knave, quickly. Think — Eric Schmidt

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

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. — Voltaire

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. — 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

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. — Saadi

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

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. — Plutarch

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

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope

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

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

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

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11. — Justin Chadwick

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

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool. — Karl G. Maeser

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

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool. — Karl G. Maeser

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. — Voltaire

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade. — John Gay

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

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. — George Berkeley

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth. — Ivan Panin

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. — Horace

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

Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.] — George Herbert

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies. — Edward Young

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