Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.

We are fooles one to another.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.