Edmund Spenser Quotes

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

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.

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

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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

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

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.

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

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

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

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

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.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

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