Quotes About Deception

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Appearances are deceiving.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do

When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.

Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners! - Cat

I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Lend your money and lose your friend.