Quotes About Deception

Uno de los principales problemas del mentiroso es que debe seguir el rastro de sus mentiras.

Pero el mentiroso deber recordar lo que dijo, y a quién; y debe cuidarse de mantener las falsedades para el futuro.

Lies beget other lies.

To lie is to erect a boundary between the truth we are living and the perception others have of us.

las investigaciones indican que los mentirosos confían menos en aquellos a quienes mienten que si no les mintieran; y cuanto más dañinas son sus mentiras, menos confían en sus víctimas, e incluso menos les agradan. Parece que los mentirosos suelen despreciar a las personas a las que mienten para preservar su ego e interpretar que su conducta está justificada.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: It steals time, energy, and motivation that a person could put toward some other purpose.

it is in believing one thing while intending to communicate another that every lie is born.

El falso apoyo es una especie de hurto: roba tiempo, energía y motivación a una persona que podría dedicarlos a algún otro fin.

Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Take Tamar, for instance. She disguises herself as a harlot and sleeps with her own father-in-law, just to prove what a hypocrite he is.

When Ruth spots a man she likes, she gets him drunk, strips off his clothes, and hops into bed with him. When he wakes up the next morning, he has no choice but to marry her. And

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The young man, who intends no ill, Believes that none is intended, and therefore Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.

Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Others, with softer smiles, and subtler art, Can sap the principles, or taint the heart; With more address a lover's note convey, Or bribe a virgin's innocence away. Well may they rise, while I, whose rustic tongue Ne'er knew to puzzle right, or varnish wrong, Spurned as a beggar, dreaded as a spy, Live unregarded, unlamented die.   For

ADULTERINE  (ADU'LTERINE)   n.s.[adulterine, Fr. adulterinus, Lat.]A child born of an adulteress:a term of canon law.

Scrambling, outfacing, fashion-mongring boys,That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,Go antickly, and shew an outward hideousness,And speak of half a dozen dangerous words.Shakesp.Much ado about Nothing.

See the hell of having a false woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villainous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that does me the wrong.Shakesp.Merry Wives of Windsor.2. The

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

O my dear! a fond husband is a surfeiting thing; and yet I believe most women love to be made monkeys of.

Which was, that as soon as Miss Emily was marriageable, she would endeavour, either by fair means, or foul, to get her into her hands: And if she did, but for one week, she should the next come out the wife of a man she had in view, who would think half the fortune more than sufficient for himself, and make over the other half to her; and then she should come into her right, which she deems to be half of the fortune of which her husband died possessed.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.