Knave Quotes

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.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

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.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

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

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

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