Quotes About Deception

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

You're physically incapable of having friends. All you can ever have are enemies and stooges.

He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast - a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Sycophancy can be seen by blinds and heard by deafs

They are the most insidious propagandists ever to cloak self-serving greed with pseudo-patriotism.

A fool is twice a fool who tries to conceal it.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.

A mantrap may be under his ruddy-tipped daisies.

But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me.

Those who thought they best knew her, often wondered what happiness such a being could take in life, not considering the happiness which is to be had by some natures in the very easy way of simply causing pain to those around them.

where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain

Considerad la sutileza del mar; cómo sus más temidas criaturas se deslizan bajo el agua, sin aparecer en su mayor parte, traidoramente ocultas bajo lo más amables matices del azur.

How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?

Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.

The whale, like all things that are mighty, wears a false brow to the common world.

You have but noted his fair cheek. A man-trap may be under his fine ruddy-tipped daisies.

Ay! La felicidad busca la luz y por eso creemos que el mundo es alegre. Sin embargo, el sufrimiento se oculta en la distancia, y por eso pensamos que el sufrimiento no existe.

To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!

enormous tragic joke in steel and concrete: half a wall.