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My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11. -- Justin Chadwick
Knavery is the best defense against a knave. -- Plutarch
My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11. -- Justin Chadwick
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave. -- William Blake
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away! -- Lewis Carroll
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
Necessity makes an honest man a knave. -- Daniel Defoe
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. -- Voltaire
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. -- David Hume
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool. -- Karl G. Maeser
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. -- Alexander Pope
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. -- George Berkeley
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
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
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
A crafty knave needs no broker. -- Horace
Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst. -- Franklin Pierce
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe. -- George Herbert
None are so busy as the fool and the knave. -- John Dryden
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. -- William Shakespeare
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. -- Voltaire
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth. -- Ivan Panin
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. -- George Herbert
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. -- William Shakespeare
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. -- Saadi
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.] -- George Herbert
Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade. -- John Gay
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. -- David Hume
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. -- George Berkeley
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. -- Plutarch
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool. -- Karl G. Maeser
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. -- Horace
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave. -- Patricia Wentworth
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. -- Alexander Pope
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies. -- Edward Young
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. -- Benjamin Franklin
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. -- Christopher Marlowe
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. -- William Hazlitt
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. -- William Hazlitt
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. -- Charles Caleb Colton
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. -- George Berkeley
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. -- Lord Chesterfield
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine. -- Edmund Waller
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! -- Ann Radcliffe
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
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms -- Henry Fielding
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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