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Quotes About Deception

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
~ Paul Beatty
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ Groucho Marx
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
~ Al Pacino
As a lover, I'm about as impressive as a magician on the radio.
~ Unknown
I met this guy who said he loved children, then I found out he was on parole for it.
~ Unknown
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
~ Agatha Christie
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
~ Will Durant
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
~ William Faulkner
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
~ Unknown
I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.
~ Robert Redford
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~ Ronald Reagan
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H L Mencken
One of my movies was called True Lies. It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Tony Blair is like an actor who doesn't really believe in his script himself but has the incredible skill to make everyone else believe in it.
~ Tom Conti
A very honest woman but something given to lie
~ William Shakespeare
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.
~ Unknown
O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.
~ Joaquin Miller
Tis woman that seduces all mankind, By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
~ John Gay
War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.
~ Unknown
Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend.
~ Homer
And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
~ Bible
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
~ Bible