Quotes About Deception

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot seeThe pretty follies that themselves commit.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.

Look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under 't.

Take, O take those lips away,That so sweetly were forsworn;And those eyes, the break of day,Lights that do mislead the morn:But my kisses bring again, bring again,Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain.

Therefore think him as a serpent's eggWhich, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,And kill him in the shell.

O conspiracy!Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,When evils are most free?

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.

A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper.

There are a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.

Why should I play the Roman fool; and dieOn mine own sword?

With devotion's visageAnd pious action we do sugar o'erThe devil himself.

My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

Framed to make women false.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen forth of Holy Writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.