Deception Quotes

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy."

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Molière

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Plato

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.

Goethe

All charming people have something to conceal usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?

Joel Chandler Harris

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Arthur Schlesinger

If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens

One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.

Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

A delusion a mockery and a snare.

Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

Homer

87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]

François de La Rochefoucauld

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception - This is my story.

Some people in your lifeTouch you so very deeplyThat you drown totally in that depth.

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Walter Benjamin

To deceive oneself is worse than to deceive others." These harsh words pierced me to the core.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it’s a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.

Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man--which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Charles Dickens

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting they'll use it to heal you instead.

Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.

In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.

Mehmet Murat ildan

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.

Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.

This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men, who are as much tempted by the desire to be honest as they are plagued by guilt and shame when they have broken faith.

Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say!-Petra Godfellow

J. Aleksandr Wootton

I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

Embee

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

William Shakespeare

Some women are good-looking … until they change their hairstyle.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

Tadeusz Borowski

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.

Orson Scott Card

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.

Ernest Hemingway

I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I wanted to be cold to him, so I turned on my heel and started to walk away.

Philippa Gregory

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

William Faulkner

She was forthright to the point of rudeness, yet he couldn’t help admiring her for saying what she really thought. It was rather refreshing to be challenged for a change – it had been many years since anyone had dared to do that. His wealth and power generally seemed to strike rather too much awe into those he associated with. It seemed this Tamsin was different.

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