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Quotes About Deception

All that is gold does not glitter.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.
~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?
~ William Shakespeare
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
~ George Orwell
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.
~ George Orwell
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
~ Orson Welles
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady
~ Chamillionaire
Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
~ Weegee
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
~ Maimonides
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
~ Aaron Hill
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
~ John Milton
Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have that.
~ Frank Zappa
I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.
~ W. C. Fields
That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.
~ Randy Orton
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
~ Tupac Shakur
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
~ Aldrich Ames
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
~ Aldrich Ames
Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.
~ Cesare Borgia
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
~ William Shakespeare
It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.
~ Rachel Caine, Bitter Blood