My Dear Sir Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o
Quotes about knavish (7 Quotes)
Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad
And most of us are. But the decent instincts that drive most Americans are scarce in certain precincts when opportunity knocks. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the leaders of the congressional Democrats, have been particularly knavish (and congressional Republicans particularly cowardly in confronting the partisan calumny). Mrs. Pelosi gave reporters a heroic (and unlikely) account of how she set the president straight in a private conversation with him. It's not clear whether the Secret Service was standing by lest she, like Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, threatened to punch him out. She called Mr. Bush oblivious, in denial, dangerous. ... Why didn't President Bush return immediately from his vacation
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Rosencrantz Do you take me for a sponge, my lord hamlet Ay, sir that soaks up the kings countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw first mouthed, to be last swallowed when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz I understand you not, my lord. hamlet I am glad of it a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle -- a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.