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Quotes About Deception

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.Men were deceivers ever;One foot in sea, and one on shore,To one thing constant never.
~ William Shakespeare
There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.
~ William Shakespeare
Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd.
~ William Shakespeare
She speaks, yet she says nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
The best in this kind are but shadows.
~ William Shakespeare
Polonius: Do you know me, my lord?Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
~ William Shakespeare
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
~ William Shakespeare
See what a rent the envious Casca made.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll prove more trueThan those that have more cunning to be strange.
~ William Shakespeare
Springes to catch woodcocks.
~ William Shakespeare
I wear notMy dagger in my mouth.
~ William Shakespeare
O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide!
~ William Shakespeare
A deed without a name.
~ William Shakespeare
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
~ William Shakespeare
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
~ William Shakespeare
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
~ William Shakespeare
If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
~ William Shakespeare
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
~ William Shakespeare
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
~ William Shakespeare
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
~ William Shakespeare
But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
~ William Shakespeare
In law, what plea so tainted and corruptBut, being season'd with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil?
~ William Shakespeare
A king of shreds and patches.
~ William Shakespeare
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
~ William Shakespeare