Quotes About Deception

All men are born truthful, and die liars.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

A liar should have a good memory.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

His toupee makes him look twenty years sillier.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Terminological inexactitude

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.