Quotes About Deception

A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people.

bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Nothing would be further from the reality.

destitute as it is even of the merit of plausibility, must have originated in an intention to deceive the people, too palpable to be obscured by sophistry, too atrocious to be palliated by hypocrisy.

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Bloody bullocks, beggin' your pardon, gentlemen, but they'd take the wooden leg off a cripple to kindle a fire!

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,How soon they find fit instruments of ill!

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

All seems infected that th' infected spy,As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;for an excuse is a lie guarded

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie

A prudent chief not always must display His pow'rs in equal ranks, and fair array, But with th' occasion and the place comply, Conceal his force, nay seem sometimes to fly.

Tis not enough, your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do;

Some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise/

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

Why did you deceive me?" "Would you have listened to me if I had told you the truth straightaway? I did not have time to convince you. It was necessary to distort the truth for the sake of plausibility. Without this transitional stage you would

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.