Quotes About Playing Someone For A Fool

#1. The mind of man is capable of anything.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Playing a fool is the best paid role.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#3. Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

Nick Cave

#4. The thing is, Calder, it's not always a choice who you develop feelings for. You're playing with fire in more ways than one. Any fool can see the way you two look at each other.

Mia Sheridan

#5. The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Alexander Pope

#6. Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool

Patrick Califia-Rice

#7. Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

William Congreve

#8. Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Anthony Liccione

#10. Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.

Melissa Bank

#11. She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

Johnny Mercer

#12. The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game
it was a modified version of the game. It was a version invented for two friends so that they can get some practice and pass the time divertingly while they eat in the station for their train to arrive

Amor Towles

#13. It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Antonio Davis

#14. What, no panty ripping today?" I tease. "What is it with you and panties anyway? What's your beef with them?"
He lifts his head, grinning at me. "It's a love/hate relationship, baby. I love how they look on you. Hate that they're blocking my access."
I giggle.

Samantha Towle

#15. but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.

Charles Williams

#16. She lives at my discretion. I can take her breath. I can give it back.

Karen Marie Moning

#17. Betting against the point spread is a relatively mechanical trip, but betting against another individual can be very complex, if you're serious about it - because you want to know, for starters, whether you're betting against a fool or a wizard, or maybe against somebody who's just playing the fool.

Hunter S. Thompson

#18. Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Nathan Myhrvold

#19. Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Lillian Hellman

#20. You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Chili Davis

#21. Tell your bitch from hell to take it if she can here and now. This temple will be rid of your influence today. You have polluted this hallowed ground long enough.

David M. Wilmot

#22. Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Marilyn Manson

#23. It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Robert Greene

#24. The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Watts

#25. Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed.

Jacques Lemaire

#26. Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

William Shakespeare

#27. I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.

Melanie Martinez

#28. He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#29. How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

Mike Mason

#30. Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Gordon Lightfoot

#31. I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

Ben Barnes

#32. Pick a side, Max. I feel like I'm living through some vampire romance where you can't be near me because my blood smells delicious.

Lucy Keating

#33. He found himself playing the love-sick fool vying for a crumb of attention or approval from Genevieve. Anything to make her smile. Make her happy. He'd give her the damn moon if that was what it took.

Maya Banks

#34. When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

E. J. Dionne

#35. You treated me like a fool and you played with my heart, like it was one of your damn footballs.

Amy Andrews

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

Mary Wortley Montagu

#37. Reiko moved on to the Beatles, playing "Norwegian Wood," "Yesterday," "Michelle," and "Something." She sang and played "Here Comes the Sun," then played "The Fool on the Hill." I laid seven matches in a row.

Haruki Murakami

#38. nothing and yet everything had passed between us.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#39. There's no fool like an old fool
you can't beat experience.

Jacob Braude