Quotes About Deception

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

Skeptics are never deceived.

These monstrous views,... these venomous teachings.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

All our geese are swans.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.

There is honor among thieves.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.