Deceit Quotes

645 Deceit quotes by 455 unique authors

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let… — Marcus Aurelius
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca the Younger
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved. — Josh Billings
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. — George Eliot
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Machination is worth more than force. — Francois Rabelais
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are our own aptest deceiver. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground — Baltasar Gracian
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest. — Jonathan Swift
Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. — William Shakespeare
But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow. — William Shakespeare
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — William Shakespeare
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful. — Winston Churchill
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee… — Bret Harte
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? — Jean de la Bruyere
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive. — Jean de la Bruyere
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere

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