Christopher Paolini Quotes

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.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.