26 Quotes About Knaves

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

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

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.

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

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

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