Quotes About Deception

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Betrayed by friendship is not a bad memorial to leave.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

When you ask for a frigate, they give you a raft. Ask for sailors, they give you tavern waiters. And if you want breeches, they give you a vest. Benedict Arnold to David Hawley, August 1776 In

It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the eighteenth century refused to believe that a young and beautiful woman was capable of helping Benedict Arnold plot the greatest conspiracy of the American Revolution and then completely fooling the astute warriors around her.

Ik besef plotseling dat ik in een voortdurende vrees leef te moeten bestaan in een maatschappij waar iedereen iedereen voor de gek houdt.

I saw bundles of dead raggedy reeds hanging down from the broken ceilings that had depicted heaven. I looked deep into the house's diseased and dying maw. It was like it had been putting on an act the whole time and was only now showing itself as it, in reality, had always been: a hollow, drafty cavern, rancid and rotting at its core.

Tinhorn politicians.

If he draw you aside from your proper end, No enemy like a bosom friend.

Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.

when someone says he wants to be perfectly straightforward with us, we should be on the lookout for a concealed dagger.

it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.

A truth that's told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent.

Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent.

I ask'd a thief to steal me a peach:He turned up his eyes.I ask'd a lithe lady to lie her down:Holy and meek, she cries.As soon as I wentAn angel came.He wink'd at the thiefAnd smil'd at the dame—And without one word saidHad a peach from the tree,And still as a maidEnjoy'd the lady.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

The women don't really believe that their beloved would do such a thing,even if they're shown s severed limb or a headless torso.Or if they believe it,they know down to their bone marrow that lover-boy really had the best of intentions;it must have been some kind of very unfortunate accident,a well-meaning blunder;in fact, even more likely, it was a humanitarian act.

He (Cicero) made Catiline and his conspiracy actually simple; the man himself had the courage to sit in front of him and listen, and at the end, it seemed as if he had exposed Catiline even to himself.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite.