Quotes About Deception

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption; Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man; Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart; Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.