Quotes About Deceit

Iago says, I am not what I am, and for this he is called deceitful, a villain. Odd, isn't it? I have always found him to be the most truthful of Shakespeare's creations. We are none of us who we are.

The false-faced angel of light always comes wrapped up in the Word of God.

mendacious, implying that he had got into a brawl

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Everything that gristles is not gold.

'Tis the strumpet's plagueTo beguile many and be beguil'd by one.

Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

False as dicers' oaths.

She was as false as water.

Framed to make women false.

Iago: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.Desdemona: O most lame and impotent conclusion!

William Shakespeare

His face is the worst thing about him.

All that glitters is not gold.

Such views the youthful Bard allure, But, heedless of the following gloom, He deems their colours shall endure 'Till peace go with him to the tomb. —And let him nurse his fond deceit, And what if he must die in sorrow! Who would not cherish dreams so sweet, Though grief and pain may come tomorrow?

A man who cheats, cheats only himself.

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

When wealth flees, untrue friends follow.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.