Quotes About Deception

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent or self-gratifying; that belief came from the pit of hell itself, regardless of how beautiful it may sound.

Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along the line of natural human sympathy, because that will end in blaspheming the love of God.

The Bible says that Eve was deceived, it does not say that Adam was deceived; consequently Adam is far more responsible than Eve because he sinned deliberately.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

You think people open their eyes just because you tell them to look? There's no happily-ever-after on this. You're dreaming.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasnt the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Men object to the surveillance of a wife, and most justly; but they seem to forget that it is nothing compared to the unscrupulous espionage of a courtesan.

What? A character almost as awful as Phaedre, and quite as desolate as Antigone, represented by a graceful coquette in point lace and pearls, who will take poison as sweetly as if it were a cup of coffee, and will die with elaborate care not to tumble her train? Preposterous!

Only a dog I" Well, dogs cannot lie, or bribe, or don a surplice, or pick a lock, or go bull-baiting in sharemarkets, or preside as chairmen over public companies; we can only, if we are dishonest, run off with a bone in a most open and foolish fashion, and get instantly whipped for our pains So that there is one art at least in which men are decidedly in advance of us; and in deference to that superexcellcnce in stealing,

Polite lies, polite lies! They are the decorous garment, and the fitting food, of the world. To be in the fashion, I shall have to treat you to them before I have done.

First appearance deceives many.