Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

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.

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

Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you never see the strings, whereas when you watch an infomercial or a politician speaking, a lot of times you can see the strings, you can see what agenda they're trying to push.

On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

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

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.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

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

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

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

If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees.

To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!

Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.