Artifice Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

— Marjorie Bowen

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a…

— Giacomo Casanova

It is delightful to play the fool.

— Horace

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

— Louis Walsh

“And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.”

— Donna Lynn Hess

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool..

— William Shakespeare

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in…

— Elbert Hubbard

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

— Luc de Clapiers