Quotes About Deception

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

You don't return people's smiles—it's perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

You're sure he's not a vampire?' Claire said.'I've seen movies. They're sneaky.' She was kidding. Eve didn't smile.

I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

Well, that's an evil smile.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man.

That was the funny thing about smiles--if you flashed the right one, no one knew there was more going on inside.

I give him a smile I don't really own.

There is no faith in the smile of the rose

I'm wearing this fake smile.

You act like you're okay, Like everything is just fine.But you can't hide a frown, And smile at the same time.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.