Quotes About Deception

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his that had got a naughty girl with child, whose friends would compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly.

Anoint a villain and he'll stab you, stab him & he'll anoint you.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.

Who has deceived thee as often as thyself?

Vice knows that she's ugly, so she puts on a mask.

The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.

A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.

stationer, that Riddlesden, the attorney, was a very knave.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Nothing is as it seems. Seeing is not believing. Sometimes... you have to feel, touch, experience... and use your intelligence.

Let the record reflect: the American people are a bunch of suckers.

You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do and how much pain people are in every day.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.

In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

I think the lies I make the most are in regards to my hopes and intentions for myself. As for lies I tell other people - I will certainly tell lies. When somebody is very ill and looks awful, and you tell them they look nice. Or if you just ate the last cookie, if someone asked me if I ate the last cookie, I would definitely lie about that.

I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.