Quotes About Deception

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

The illusion of confidence is far more important than actually possessing the feeling.

Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

Sometimes my dad even gets on this kick--'You hate this country'....I have to tell him...I just hate being lied to.

I've been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.