Quotes About Deception

It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

Its easy to lie, but hard to confess

Love is a sentiment precipitated by an illusionary excitement which seldom fades away leaving the victims in utter hope and distraction to love and be loved in return

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

Patience protects you from deception

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.