Quotes About Deception

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)

Horse was already in the heart of the Trojans. (Cheval était déjà dans le cœur des Troyens.)

Judas did not make only one kiss. (Judas n'a pas fait qu'une seule bise)

Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi.)

The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.)

The path of truth has meadows of falsity. (Le chemin de la vérité A des prairies de fausseté.)"

The wolf rolls out red carpet, Remnants of Red Riding Hood. (Le loup déroule le tapis rouge, Ce qui reste du Chaperon Rouge)

They have no heart attack, since they have no heart. (De crise cardiaque ils n'ont, - Puisque de cœur ils n'ont.)

Vampire doesn't see his image. Even less in the holy water. (Vampire ne voit son image. - Encore moins dans l'eau bénite.)

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

"The artful Dodger."

All is gas and gaiters.

What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!

He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense.

Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.