“ 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 ...
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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.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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.
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Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
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Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.
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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
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You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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O, what a tangled web we weave; When first we practice to deceive!
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Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
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Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
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A lie which is a half truth is ever the blackest of lies.
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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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We are easily fooled by that which we love.
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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit
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It is a pity that we so often succeed our endeavors to deceive each other.
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The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception
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We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
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Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
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Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
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The most deceitful persons spend their lives in blaming deceit, so as to use it on some great occasion to promote some great interest.
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Trust not in him that seems a saint.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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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.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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None are deceived but they that confide.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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