Quotes About Deception

Flattery is like smoking — it is not dangerous so long as you do not inhale.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Love is blind but the neighbors are not.

Love consists of a little sighing, a little crying, a little dying — and a deal of lying.

You can fool some of the people some of the time... But you can't fool Mom!

Optimism... The instinct to lie.

What is taken from you before you get it? Your photograph.

Politics: "poli" (many) and "tics" (blood-sucking parasites).

I beg your pardon, my lord; promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

A promise is a comfort for a fool.

There is more poison in aphorisms than in painted candy; but it is of a less seductive kind.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

Be careful not to drown in a mirage.

God did not give wings to scorpions.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

As I was sitting in my chair I knew the bottom wasn't there. Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

The believing we do something when we do nothing, is the first illusion of tobacco.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.