Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.

Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

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

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

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."

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

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