Quotes About Deception

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

Palming separates the men from the boys!

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.