Quotes About Deception

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.