Quotes About Deception

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be.

Only falsehood wins renown, not understanding!

When it is taught that the devil does not exist, he has achieved the propagation of his most dangerous triumph.

So if money is fiction, finance capital is the fiction of a fiction. That's what all those criminals trade in: fictions.

Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

We laughed a lot, to hide it from each other. But fear always finds an out. If you control your face, it slips into your voice. If you manage to keep a grip on your face and your voice, as if they were dead wood, it will slip out through your fingers. It will pass through your skin and lie there. You can see it lying around on objects close by.

Das Kind redet weiter. Beim Reden bleibt etwas auf der Zunge liegen. Das Kind denkt sich, es kann nur die Wahrheit sein, die sich auf die Zunge liegt wie ein Kirschkern, der nicht in den Hals fallen will. Solange die Stimme beim Reden ins Ohr steigt, wartet sie auf die Wahrheit. Aber gleich nach dem Schweigen, denkt sich das Kind, ist alles gelogen, weil die Wahrheit in den Hals gefallen ist.

Als er overal wordt gelogen, als je eigen ervaring zo tegengesteld is aan de officiële waarheid en op die manier van je wordt afgepakt, moet je wel verstommen.

Quando a gente é aquilo que finge ser, é castigada por isso, é como se fosse uma lei.

Information secured after the end of hostilities supports our surmise that some Abwehr officials willfully shut their eyes to suspicions about their agents. They thought it better for selfish reasons to have corrupt or disloyal agents than to have no agents at all.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

For every time she shouted "Fire!"They only answered "Little liar!"And therefore when her aunt returned,Matilda, and the house, were burned.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.