Quotes About Deception

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!

O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

There's daggers in men's smiles.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.