Quotes About Deception

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

Any man can turn traitor.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

No fox is foxier than man!