Quotes About Deception

Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

All that glisters is not gold.

Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more?

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

Conscience is a treacherous thing, and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

The art of making much show with little substance.

A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable, they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to disperse it in noises upon the air.

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.