A Quote by Georges Courteline

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Georges Courteline

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Connoisseur Delight Fool Idiot Looked True

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Georges Courteline
French - Novelist
June 25, 1858 - June 25, 1929

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

Craig Claiborne

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

Groucho Marx

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.

Groucho Marx

I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.

Christopher Guest

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

Natsuki Takaya

I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.

Amanda Hocking

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

Harry Anderson

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

John Calvin

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

Kohta Hirano

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

Stephenie Meyer

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Harold MacMillan

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Will Durant

Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role.

Hugo Chavez

Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

Woody Allen

The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.