Quotes About Deception

Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Alliance - In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket...

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of an edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market—the fine ones on top—have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.

Hypocrite, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Ä°ki cinsin kat?l?m?n? gerektiren danslar?n iki ortak özelliÄŸi vard?r: Dikkat çekici biçimde masumdurlar ve niyeti kötü olanlar taraf?ndan sevilirler.

The tendency to lie is one thing; lying is another.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

BALLOON, n. A contrivance for larding the earth with the fat of fools.

INFANCY, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, Heaven lies about us. The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.

Sin has many tools, but a lie has a handle to fit them all.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

Promises are like flowers, often given, rarely kept

Does the devil know he is a devil?