Knaves Quotes

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.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

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

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

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

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than 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.

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.

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