Quotes About Deception

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Esto se acabó. Es cuanto por ahora podemos decir de las personas que parecen buenas y no lo son.

Doña Flora de Cisniega era una vieja que se empeñaba en permanecer joven: tenía más de cincuenta años; pero ponía en práctica todos los artificios imaginables para engañar al mundo, aparentando la mitad de aquella cifra aterradora.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

How they wait to ambush us, our true emotions

Sabéis su definición de un embajador? «Un caballero honrado enviado al extranjero a mentir

Patología, Wilkins y Sinclair, sus ayudantes, intercambiaron

We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

Lying rides upon debts back.

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Half a truth is often a great lie

Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)

if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.