Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are just putting us on [and acting stupid], or by imbeciles who really mean it.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

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

With foxes we must play the fox.

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a great hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Only betrayal can counter betrayal.

Is there any way we can screw him?

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.

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

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

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

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

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

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

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.