Deceit Quote by Samuel Johnson

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

— Henry Fielding

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,…

— Joseph Joubert

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A Flatterer is a man that tells you your opinion and not his own

— Anonymous

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

— Robert Breault

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

— Michael Drayton

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

— Philip Sidney

If someone tries to flatter me too much I think they are full of shit! Then I have a hard time believing anything they…

— Jhiess Krieg

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

— Aristotle

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

— Ray Stevenson