Quotes About Deception

Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from Heaven, and lisping like angels, while they lie.

Está rodeado de pessoas esquisitas, as quais realmente não compreendo. Não têm aparência de espertalhões, nem de gente honesta. Às vezes parecem-me honestas, mas não consigo confiar nelas.

Adam's wife, his first. Beware of her. Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair. When Lilith winds it tight around young men She doesn't soon let go of them again.

Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others?" Dan snapped. "Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it stinks ! Grace had a saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!

Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her!

Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe.

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.

Titles of Books. — Decoys to catch purchasers.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

I hate careless flattery — the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

[F]lattery is the prolific parent of falsehood.

Méringue covers a multitude of sins.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day. But when the time comes that man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.

A plain and simple answer for This riddle's what we wish: Does fishing make men liars, or Do only liars fish?

The road to hell is strewn with roses.

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.

But cards are war in disguise of a sport...