Quotes About Deception

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

A plastic man really, actually no man at all.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!