Fool Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image “A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Knavery Knaves Persons Thinking Time
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool. — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave… — George Savile Copy Share Image
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image