Quotes About Deception

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …

Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.

He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died." "Because he was stupid?" "It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame.

How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!

That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don't you?" "Of course I believe in the truth," said Rhoda, staring. "Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven't thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one's illusions." "I'd rather have it all the same." said Rhoda. "So would I. But I don't know that we're wise.

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot

There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!