Quotes About Deception

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

You're baloney without the mayo.

Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.