Quotes About Deception

The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Success has always been a great liar.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires.

The wicked are great drinkers of water; As the flood proved once for all.

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers.

Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel

Hold! I must have lost it, said the young man maliciously, pretending to search for it. But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, 'Fie! Fie!

Well, Monsieur Laporte placed her near her Majesty in order that our poor queen might at least have someone in whom she could place confidence, abandoned as she is by the king, watched as she is by the cardinal, betrayed as she is by everybody. Ah, ah!

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and the life would diminish, the total of the amount.

Commend me to the cardinal,' said Milady. 'Commend me to Satan,' replied Rochefort.

you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My

When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.