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Knaves: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

A knave; a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; a one-trunk-inheriting slave: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou denyest the least syllable of thy additions.— K. L. ii. 2.

A shrewd knave, and an unhappy.— A. W. iv. 5.

A slippery and subtle knave; a finder out of occasions; that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never present itself: a devilish knave!— 0. ii. 1.

What a pestilent knave is this same !— R. J. iv. 5.

I grant your worship, that he is a knave, Sir; but yet, God forbid, Sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his friend's request. An honest man, Sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have served your worship truly, Sir, for this eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have but very little credit with your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, Sir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced. H IV. PT. II. v. 1. A beetle-headed, flat-ear'd knave.— T.S. iv. 1

Use his men well, for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.— H.IV. PT. II. V. 1

That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse t' unloose.— K. L. ii. 2

By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery.