Quotes About Deception

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

Men should be what they seem.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.