Quotes About Deception

What gentlemen say and what they think are two different things.

It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names.

The husband is always the last to find out.

That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.

Pretty young Mrs. Hamilton, with her dimple and her jingling earbobs and her helpless little ways, blowing a man's face to a pulp and then burying him in a hastily scratched-out hole!

I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

He never really existed at all, except in my imagination," she thought wearily. "I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.