Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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!
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
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
They have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves
The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder.
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.