Quotes About Deception

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Nature is only another chimera.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form.

A sheep in wolves clothing!

How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!

at first sight everyone seems like human.

in these shitty plastic days ...

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren't being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.