Conjuring Quote by Karl Germain

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

— Ferdinand Lundberg

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise…

— Robert Greene

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

— George Herbert

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized…

— Mark Twain

None are deceived but they that confide.

— Benjamin Franklin

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most…

— John le Carre

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is…

— William Faulkner

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

— Robert Southey

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

— John Ruskin