Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

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

When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.