Christopher Moore Quotes

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

There's always something fishy about the French.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

People think Paris [Hilton] is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not.

I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.

Everything is presented in as devious a manner as it could possibly be presented.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

A good liar must have a good memory.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.