1. "Am I thy looking-glass that thou callest me knave?"
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Oscar Wilde, Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: Salome. the Importance of Being Earnest
2. "None are so busy as the fool and knave."
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Quote by John Dryden
3. "A thousand years of torture rule, The knave who dares to harm a fool. I"
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Christopher Moore, Fool
4. "It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave."
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Quote by David Hume
5. "A man of wit could not be a knave or villain."
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Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
6. "For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly."
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Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
7. "For my part, if a man must needs be a knave, I would have him a debonair knave, and I liked Rupert Hentzau better than his long-faced, close-eyed companions."
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Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
8. "But why insult the poor, affront the great?' A knave's a knave, to me, in every state."
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Quote by Alexander Pope
9. "HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
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Quote by George Berkeley
10. "The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!"
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Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland