Quotes About Deception

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth