The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Francesco Guicciardini
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Justin Chadwick
My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.