Quotes About Deception

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?