Quotes About Deception

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Being called 'love' or 'my love' by someone doesn't necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.