Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not. Votes: 4
Charles Caleb ColtonThe worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty. Votes: 2
Johann Kaspar LavaterThere's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. Votes: 2
William ShakespeareEvery knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. Votes: 2
George BerkeleyFashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Votes: 2
Charles ChurchillZeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. Votes: 2
PlutarchBy fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. Votes: 2
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannA brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. Votes: 2
Aphra BehnWhile I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. Votes: 2
Alexander PopeA knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. Votes: 2
William HazlittOur own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. Votes: 0
Woodrow WilsonWe never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Votes: 0
Jean de la Bruyere