Jean Genet Quotes

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

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

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

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

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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