Quotes About Deceit

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.

Rest from inordinate desire of knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit. Those who have knowledge desire to appear learned, and to be called wise. Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul. And foolish out of measure is he who attendeth upon other things rather than those which serve to his soul's health. Many words satisfy not the soul, but a good life refresheth the mind, and a pure conscience giveth great confidence towards God.

Metternich told lies all the time, and never deceived any one; Talleyrand never told a lie and deceived the whole world.

Cine oare a creat acest labirint al nesigurantei, acest templu al trufiei, acest ulcior cu pacate, acest ogor semanat cu mii de viclesuguri, aceasta poarta a iadului, acest cos plin pana la refuz de siretlicuri, aceasta otrava care aduce cu mierea: femeia?

stretched truth into an obvious

My skull was a face that concealed scorpions.

Liar, liar, pants on fire…

He loved Kennedy and he trusted her, but at the end of the day she was still a spy. A professional perpetrator of deceit and lies. As much as he wanted to believe her, he could never really be sure. He turned his attention back to Baker.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit; she knew that.

You can shovel your bullshit however deep you want it, but in the end, it's still bullshit.

Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface—chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get.

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.

Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby 'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hitch

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit… it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it,—viz., A mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

Make what use of the tale you shall think proper. If it be communicated to the world, it will inculcate the duty of avoiding deceit. It will exemplify the force of early impressions, and show, the immeasurable evils that flow from an erroneous or imperfect discipline.

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

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