Thomas Fuller Quotes

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

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

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

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

Tactics are manipulative.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

The ingenuity of these people is singular in their secret modes of mischief.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

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

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

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

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

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.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

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