Quotes About Deception

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

The French thinker Francois de La Rochefoucauld proclaimed: "Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue."7 If the Rule of Law sometimes produces hypocrisy, at least we know what counts as vice and what counts as virtue.

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.

A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel." "Easy mistake to make," Jem said.

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

The point about bad money is not that it converges with the worth of the paper it is printed on. It is worse than that. Falsifying the information basis of all prices, it stultifies entrepreneurs, deceives savers, and fosters tyranny. Interest

Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see.

What the big print on the front giveth, the little print on the back taketh away!" If you want to be a successful negotiator, force yourself to read everything carefully. Conversely, there's nothing wrong with hiding something that's important to you but likely to be unacceptable to the other side in an inconspicuous place. If it's spotted and raised by the other side, discuss it normally; never plead guilty to using trickery.

Never make a cheater your partner. Never make your partner a cheater.

Relying on theft and deceit is an unconscious admission of incompetence.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

His bark is worse than his bite.

The eye is bigger than the belly.

For thirty pence he did my death devise,Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

We are betrayed by what is false within