My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
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!
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Very often say what you will a knave is only a fool.
It is a just political maxim that every man must be supposed a knave.
He who cheats others is a knave but he who cheats himself is a fool.
The same ambition can destroy or save and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man you may be sure is himself a knave.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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.
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.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.
If yee would know a knave give him a staffe.
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
You are not worth another word else I'd call you knave.
God has punished the knave and the devil has drowned the rest.
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]
Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.
Every knave is a thorough knave and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
Zeno first started that doctrine that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known but to know himself.
By fools knaves fatten; by bigots priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave the sage a fool.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave and always more incorrigible.
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
While I live no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Titles are marks of honest men and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
The honest Man takes Pains and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure and then suffers Pains.
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
A knave thinks himself a fool all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman.
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave but by no means that he was not a fool.
O heart be at peace because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause Being for a woman's sake.
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite scoundrel and knave.
Revenge is a debt in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere and so far as he is able punctual.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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.