Voltaire Quotes

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

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

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.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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.

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

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

The world loves to be deceived.

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

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

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

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

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

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.