862 Quotes About Deception

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.

He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.