Quotes About Deception

Una organización no gubernamental organizada por un gobierno es una impostora que pretende aparecer como parte de la sociedad civil, pero que en realidad está instigada, financiada o dirigida por un gobierno o un grupo de gente que actúa en su nombre.

Él ha entendido que en estos tiempos es necesario para los gobernantes parecer democráticos aunque en la práctica no lo sean. Pero guardar las apariencias democráticas es algo que a Hugo le interesa... y lo hace muy bien.

Millones juzgan que están en juego las libertades políticas y desaprueban que el presidente quiera llevar el país a un modelo como el de Cuba gracias a los votos que obtendrá engañando a los pobres con promesas que se sabe que son imposibles, regalándoles pollos, televisores, neveras o, directamente, dinero.

en estos tiempos es necesario para los gobernantes parecer democráticos aunque en la práctica no lo sean.

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?

C'est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours.

Deceived on all sides, overwhelmed with injustice, I will fly from an abyss where vice is triumphant, and seek out some small secluded nook on earth, where on may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man.

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

MADAME PERNELLE. My dear, appearances are oft deceiving, And seeing shouldn't always be believing.

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

What! Just because a rascal boldly duped you With pompous show of false austerity, Must you needs have it everybody's like him, And no one's truly pious nowadays?

Appearances can deceive the keenest mind. Remember my example, and be wise: When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

ELMIRE. But they affright us so with Heaven's commands! TARTUFFE. I can dispel these foolish fears, dear madam; I know the art of pacifying scruples Heaven forbids, 'tis true, some satisfactions; But we find means to make things right with Heaven.

That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size, Can be so foolish as to...

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Je puis croire ces mots, un artifice honnête. Je ne me fierai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire, Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.

What the deuce does he mean by all this? I thought I had found a clever man who would give me good advice, and I find a chimney-sweep, who, instead of speaking to me, plays at mora.

Good Heaven, friend, do not trouble yourself. He will be a clever man who catches me in this way. I know all the cunning tricks and subtle devices which women use to deceive us, and how one is fooled by their dexterity, and I have taken precautions against this mischance. She whom I am marrying possesses all the innocence which may protect my forehead from evil influence.

Cl. In short, we ought to be blind throughout this play, and pretend not to see anything in it. Ur. We ought not to see what is not there.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.