"Knave" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pretended obligations. The applying to him in any laudable undertaking is not like stirring 'a dish of skimmed milk.' There is stuff in him, and it is of the right practicable sort. He is not all his life at hawk-and-buzzard whether he shall be a Whig or a Tory, a friend or a foe, a knave or a fool; but thinks that life is short, and that there is no time to play fantastic tricks in it, to tamper with principles, or trifle with individual feelings. If he gives you a character, he does not add a damning clause to it: he does ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt
... that even ye dare to raise your voices against me? By the good Heaven, I will begin my work here by slaying the first man who dares to raise word against my bidding." Then he turned from them. "Here, Hans," said he, "take the boy; and remember, knave, what ...
— Otto of the Silver Hand • Howard Pyle
... Walter; come down, my men," she cried; "we must e'en hold a council of war, and lay our plans; while old Andrew will keep watch for us, and tell us when the black-faced knave ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... wickeder," said Ben when Black Paul had hurried away; "the de'il himsel' couldna hae taught ye a craftier trick than that. Weel ye kenned that that black fellow would fain serve under a free-handed fool than a stingy knave. Ay, sir, your ...
— Kate Bonnet - The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter • Frank R. Stockton
... man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot plotting crime, Who for the advancement of his kind Is wiser ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 - Volume 1, Number 7 • Various
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