Quotes About Deception

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.

My mother came over to give the new dog a good sniff. Daisy held still and then did the same back. She wasn't shy with Rocky or me, either. When we came over, Daisy stuck her nose down to be sniffed, and even flopped down so we could wrestle with her. I liked Daisy, I decided. Wrestling was even more fun than chasing. But when Jennifer came outside with bowls of food and water, Daisy waited until Jennifer was far away before she bolted over to the food and devoured it in three gulps.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie.

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Go on, live in your poultry-yard. Scratch straw and cluck and cackle at everything that you take for a fox. [Exit.

Why should the faithfullest heart most love The bitter sweetness of false faces?