Giacomo Casanova Quotes

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

Scratch a king and find a fool!

How every fool can play upon the word!

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface, trying to keep him afloat. Whatever happened, Nathaniel did not intend to sink with him.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.