Deceit Quotes

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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
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Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. (Quote by - Phineas T. Barnum)
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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
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If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
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The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. (Quote by - Cardinal Carlo Carafa)
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A sheep in sheep's clothing. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3))
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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. (Quote by - Lord Thomas Denman)
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But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. (Quote by - John Dryden)
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We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. (Quote by - Goldoni)
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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. (Quote by - Francis Bret Harte)
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The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!" (Quote by - John Hay)
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. (Quote by - Homer)
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You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
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The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. (Quote by - Francois de la Noue)
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One may outwit another, but not all the others. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. (Quote by - John Locke)
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Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. (Quote by - Lysander)
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He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow. (Quote by - John Milton)
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. (Quote by - Christian N. Bovee)
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
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Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. (Quote by - Tristan Bernard)
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. (Quote by - Madame de Lambert)
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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. (Quote by - Pierre Charron)
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. (Quote by - Hitopadesa)
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
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We like to be deceived. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. (Quote by - Francoise Sagan)
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues)
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. (Quote by - Colton)
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. (Quote by - Robert South)
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a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets in the Democratic Party. (Quote by - Al Sharpton)
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. (Quote by - Homer)
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Every crowd has a silver lining. (Quote by - P. T. Barnum)
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