383 Quotes About Deceit

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

We have made the Reich by propaganda

Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.