Quotes About Deception

I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

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

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

We are almost in a time beyond jokes, beyond satire. When the Trump era is called the 'post-truth' period, then this is the greatest joke of all, albeit quite depressing.

stole the bank's money. You big fat cheater.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour

Slander boldly, something always sticks [Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret]

Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.

It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.

Ä°nsanlar?n umutlar?n? ustaca, kurnazca beslemek, böylece onlar? bir umuttan ötekine koÅŸturmak, hoÅŸnutsuzluk aÄŸr?s?na kar?? en etkili ilaçlardan biridir.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.