Jean Fontaine Quotations

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver

There is nothing useless to men of sense

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Let us not be so difficult; the most accommodating are the cleverest.

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

It is double pleasing to trick the trickster.

Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards.

Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape

This fellow did not see further than his own nose.

It's a double pleasure to trick the trickster.

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires

They are too green, he said, and only good for boobies.

In all matters one must consider the end.

The greatest ass of the three is not the one you would think.