Giacomo Casanova Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

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.

The sharp employ the sharp.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

He [Jack Kemp] is dumber than he looks and even more two faced than I depict him!

Is there any way we can screw him?

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.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

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

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."