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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. By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery.— K. L. ii. 2