Quotes About Deception

Now does he feel His secret murders sticking on his hands. Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach. Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man….

Faith, I have heard too much; for your words and performances are no kin together.

All that glitters is not gold Often you have heard that told.

Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and death their gain! Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.

O, that a lady of one man refus'd, Should of another therefore be abus'd!

Sweet doctor, you shall be my bedfellow. When I'm not there, you can sleep with my wife.

the father of lies is the Devil - and that mischief and the Devil are never far apart.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

Truth is the most valuable thing in the world but often times is hidden by a bodyguard of lies.

Uno sciocco dignitoso, Demelza, non ottiene niente, mentre il farabutto dai toni melliflui sì.

You treat everybody like they are your friend. It ain't that way in the world, Forrest. A lot of people ain't your friend. They are just lookin at you the way a banker looks at somebody comes in for a loan—How I'm gonna fleece this rube? That's the way it is, Forrest. That's the way it is.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

and being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full.

In war-time," I said, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away… people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.

The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies.

I had no idea in those days of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Russian maxim, "You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge.

There is different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a