Air Quote by Robert Greene

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

— George Crabbe

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

— Greg LeMond

None are deceived but they that confide.

— Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in…

— Ben Macintyre

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

— T Bone Burnett

Honest people are easily deceived

— Arab Proverb

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress…

— H. G. Wells

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired…

— Walter Kaufmann

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who…

— Samuel Johnson

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and…

— O. Henry