More knave than fool. [ Proverb ]
An old knave is no babe. [ Proverb ]
Once a knave, always a knave. [ Proverb ]
Better be a fool than a knave. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An open knave is a great fool. [ Proverb ]
A crafty knave needs no broker. [ Proverb quoted in Hen. VI ]
A knave discovered is a great fool. [ Proverb ]
The more knave, the better fortune. [ Proverb ]
There I caught a knave in a purse-net. [ Proverb ]
It is better to be nothing than a knave. [ M. Antoninus ]
If ye would know a knave, give him a staff. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better kiss a knave than be troubled with him. [ Proverb ]
With a fool and a knave there is no conclusion. [ Proverb ]
No matter what religion a knave or a fool is of. [ Proverb ]
Drunkards have a fool's tongue and a knave's heart. [ Proverb ]
He that lives a knave will hardly die an honest man. [ Proverb ]
It is as hard a thing to please a knave as a knight. [ Proverb ]
Every one is glad to see a knave caught in his own trap. [ Proverb ]
Honest men are soon bound, but you can never bind a knave. [ Proverb ]
It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be found out. [ Italian Proverb ]
Set a stool in the sun, when one knave rises another comes. [ Proverb ]
When a knave is in a plum tree he hath neither friend nor kin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To be a fool or knave in print, does but bring the truth to light. [ Proverb ]
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. [ William Shakespeare ]
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The world is not so much knave, that it holds honesty to be a vice and a folly. [ Proverb ]
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. [ Saadi ]
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. [ Hazlitt ]
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. [ Colton ]
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. [ Colton ]
Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom. [ Fielding ]
Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom. [ Fielding ]
Commend a fool for his wit and a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms. [ Field ]
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonyme for the Devil. [ Macaulay ]
Revenge is a debt, in the paying o( which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. [ Colton ]
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. [ Chesterfield ]