Giacomo Casanova Quotes

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

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

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

See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

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

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

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

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

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."

Machination is worth more than force.

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.

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

Weaklings must lie.

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