Quotes About Deception

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

By men's words we know them.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.