Deceit Quotes - Page 8

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colours dyed deep in grain, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

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 is peculiar.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.