Quotes About Deception

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.