Quotes About Deception

Away and mark the time with fairest show, False face must hide what false heart doth know.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?

My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET Or like a whale? POLONIUS Very like a whale. HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

William Shakespeare

Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard they make no battery.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves...

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Bad is the world, and all will come to naught when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

Nothing that is so, is so.

If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.

Them that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.

We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend? CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you. CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.