Quotes About Deception

Of course I know," said Madame Massin, "that the Abbe Chaperon is an honest man; but he is capable of anything for the sake of his poor. He must have mined and undermined uncle, and the old man has just tumbled into piety. We did nothing, and here he is perverted! A man who never believed in anything, and had principles of his own! Well! we're done for. My husband is absolutely beside himself.

The true lover was suffering for the sins of the false. This inconsistency is unfortunately only to be expected so long as men do not know how many flowers are mown down in a young woman's soul by the first stroke of treachery.

The actors in this scene, so full of interest, commonplace as it seems, were provided with bits of pasteboard striped in many colors and numbered, and with counters of blue glass, and they appeared to be listening to the jokes of the notary, who never drew a number without making a remark, while in fact they were all thinking of Monsieur Grandet's millions.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

A paris on trouve moyen de vous assassiner un homme en disant " il a bon cœur". Cette phrase veut dire " le pauvre garçon est bête comme un rhinocéros

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

It was as if he thought he had already lost what he was actually holding in his hands.

Besides, there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they were poisonous plants, which you need not pluck unless you choose. And, even if you do pluck them, you can always fling them from you and leave them to wither on the ground. He

there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they were poisonous plants, which you need not pluck unless you choose. And, even if you do pluck them, you can always fling them from you and leave them to wither on the ground.

The law plays fast and loose with reality- and no one really believes it.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time.

The appearance of right often leads us wrong.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Y la madre creyó a la serpiente, porque en todas las religiones de los hombres la serpiente conoce el misterio de las vidas que pueblan los mundos.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

It happens often, betraying one another, doesn't it?

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

Hey, do you know what happens to a liar when he dies? He lies still, Jack!