Quotes About Deception

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.