The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.