Quotes About Deceit

but three emotions are so often intertwined with deceit as to merit separate explanation: fear of being caught, guilt about lying, and delight in having duped someone.

In my definition of a lie or deceit, then, one person intends to mislead another, doing so deliberately, without prior notification of this purpose, and without having been explicitly asked to do so by the target.* There are two primary ways to lie: to conceal and to falsify.

In many deceits the victim overlooks the liar's mistakes, giving ambiguous behavior the best reading, collusively helping to maintain the lie, to avoid the terrible consequences of uncovering the lie.

The husband who is having his fourteenth affair won't worry much about getting caught. He is practiced in deceit. He knows what to anticipate and how to cover it.

The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

The lie deceives no one so much as the one who tells it.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

You said you like to write. . . . All you need are some couplets and a refrain. You just tell a story with words, about who screwed over whom, who broke whose heart, and how long they've been crying ever since. You know, just like real life.

But you can gift wrap a piece of shit and it's still a piece of shit.

In thy foul throat thou liest.

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones

Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves

Who makes the fairest show means the most deceit.

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:

Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!

Los lambiscones se esmeran como putas menopáusicas para hacerte creer que son muy útiles.

I've trained you to be as honest as any man who ever lived, but if virtue serves to guide our actions with our friends and allies, every sort of trick can be used against our enemies. That's why you were taught never to hunt a lion or a bear without some special advantage. Didn't that kind of lesson teach you cunning and deceit?

Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.

But over and beyond all that can be written on the subject—inventiveness is a personal matter, beyond all formulas—the true general must be able to take in, deceive, decoy, delude his adversary at every turn, as the particular occasion demands. In fact, there is no instrument of war more cunning than chicanery;

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can't shine a sneaker.