Quotes About Deception

It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

Foul whisperings are abroad.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

The head is always the dupe of the heart.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

The Devil's boots don't creak.

The cunning livery of hell.

If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.

Hypocrite - mouth one way, belly 'nother way.