862 Quotes About Deception

Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

I'm not denying anything. I wasn't trying to deceive anyone. But it was wrong. I overstepped the rule. It has happened before. But it won't happen in the future. I should have known better.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.