Quotes About Deception

All that glitters is not gold.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Begin at Act II, Scene 2, line 242: Royal wench, she did lay great Caesar's sword to bed--he plowed her and she cropt.

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

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

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard...

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

We ask a simple question And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish?

can seem very attractive to someone who has no idea at all what it really means; and

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

People are deceived and drawn on step by step, till war, death and destruction are upon them.

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

When aren't we acting?' he asked in his diary. 'When aren't we concealing? Would you like me to have been a fly on your wall yesterday? Did you do nothing shameful? Of course you did. The version of ourselves that we present to the world bears no resemblence to the truth. If we knew the truth about each other we could take noone seriously. There isn't one of us who could afford to be caught. That's all life is. Trying not to be found out.

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.