Definition of Knave

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Definition of Knave

Knave

A boy; especially, a boy servant.

Any male servant; a menial.

A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.

A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

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Knave Quotations

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Voltaire

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
David Hume

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.
Lord Chesterfield

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Berkeley

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe

Knave Translations

knave in German is Schurke
knave in Norwegian is kjeltring

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