Deceiving Quote by Honore de Balzac

“The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.”

— Elizabeth Jenkins

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

— Honore de Balzac

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

— Elbert Hubbard

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

— E. M. Forster

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

— Barbara Tuchman

“She had played the part of naïve wife to two men. She wasn’t stupid, and she was starting to get angry at herself for…

— Beth Flynn

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

— Pierre Corneille

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

— Elbert Hubbard

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough,…

— E. V. Lucas

WIFE, A woman who can be labelled intelligent when she sees through her husband -- she's understanding when she sees him through;

— Nikhil Saluja