A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Frances Wright

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 knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

George Savile

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Voltaire

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

George Herbert

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

William Hazlitt

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

William Hazlitt

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Christopher Marlowe

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.