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Quotes About Deception

If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.
~ Ron Weber
They say if it's too good to be true, it usually is..... Unless it's me.
~ Behdad Sami
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
~ Hesiod
Sometimes things seem too good to be true.
~ Keke Palmer
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
~ Roger Waters
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
~ Isaiah
Hell is full of good intentions.
~ Thomas Gray
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
~ Sitting Bull
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
~ Eddie Van Halen
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
~ Lloyd Alexander, The High King
Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.
~ Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
~ Quentin Crisp
Liars need to have good memories.
~ Algernon Sidney
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
~ Diane de Poitiers
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
~ Alan Rickman
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
~ Baltasar Gracian
A good liar must have a good memory.
~ Christopher Hitchens
moral vanity is the snare of good people.
~ Margaret Deland
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
~ Pierre Corneille
I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.
~ Mason Cooley
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He looks like the good boy he's never been.
~ Holly Black
The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.
~ Robert Payne