Quotes About Deception

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

And I'm the worst liar of all time.

Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.