Charles Bukowski Quotes

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

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

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

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

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

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

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

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

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.