Quotes About Deception

O! what authority and show of truthCan cunning sin cover itself withal.

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in blissWho, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;But, O! what damned minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves!

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,That palter with us in a double sense;That keep the word of promise to our earAnd break it to our hope.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

At lovers' perjuries,They say, Jove laughs.

Hamlet: His beard was grizzled, no?Horatio: It was, as I have seen it in his life,A sable silver'd.

Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion!

Some there be that shadows kiss;Such have but a shadow's bliss.

William Shakespeare

You spotted snakes with double tongue,Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen;Newts, and blind-worms, do no wrong;Come not near our fairy queen.

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

I have peppered two of them…. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

You care not who sees your back: call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!

I want that glib and oily artTo speak and purpose not.

The fool multitude, that choose by show.

O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I.

Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

Lucrece swears he did her wrong.