Quotes About Deception

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

Fair words butter no parsnips.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

A single word often betrays a great design.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

I was wounded in the house of my friends.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

A straight stick looks crooked under water.

Hypocrites are double-edged knives.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.

Lepota je skupa, ludo skupa a ništavna i varljiva stvar.

Tek jesen je pokazala kako su plitkog korena i kratkog veka bile moje obmane. I ne samo jesen. Jelene je nestalo iz svih mojih godišnjih doba.

I ako nas niko ne prevari, prevarimo se mi sami…

Brak je vec u pocetku stao da se pokazuje kao ono sto i jeste u ovakvim slucajevima:strahovita zabluda sa jedne strane, a strahovita prevara sa druge.

Ona ih je sve zalu?ivala, jer su ludi ro?eni, varala, jer su želeli da budu prevareni, i na kraju, uzimala im samo ono što su i ina?e bili rešeni da bace i izgube.

Lepota, najve?a od svih varki ?ovekovih; ako je ne uzmeš - nema je, ako pokušaš da je uzmeš - prestaje da postoji.

Kad vidiš ovako ?oveka suviše sigurna u sebe i ono što kaže, hitra i slatka na re?i, koji ti nudi što mu ne tražiš, odobrava što kažeš, a ostaje pri onom što je namislio, znaj da je kurva i bezdušnik, i kloni ga se koliko možeš.

Toliko je živa kod slabog ?ovjeka potreba da se vara i tako neograni?ena mogu?nost da bude prevaren.

lukavstvo ide uz bogatstvo; ono mu i prethodi i prati ga dovijeka.