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Quotes About Deception

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.
~ Rita Hayworth
All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.
~ Rita Rudner
Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.
~ Robert Jordan
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
~ H. L. Mencken
A man talking fast has something to hide.
~ Haim Bar-Lev
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
~ Henry Fielding
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
~ Herman Melville
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
~ Hilaire Belloc
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
~ Honore de Balzac
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
~ Honore de Balzac
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.
~ Hugh Howey
Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.
~ Isaac Asimov
Give me an honest con man any day.
~ J. D. Salinger
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.
~ Jack Cade
It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.
~ Jack London
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
~ James Joyce
We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?
~ James Vila Blake
Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.
~ Jamie McKelvie
Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.
~ Jay Leno