John Lyly Quotes

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

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

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

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

talent to hoodwink the blind, and with a facility of speech well calculated to deceive the ignorant …

The more you are in public life, the more you wonder at the credulity of the average human being.