Quotes of Trickery - somelinesforyou

“ There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived. ”

- Legal Maxim

“ He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ One may outwit another, but not all the others. ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. ”

- Tristan Bernard

“ I don't know what cheating is. ”

- Barry Bonds

“ No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you. ”

- Tommy Lasorda

“ This is a case of deceit and sheer fraud. ”

- Steven Bernstein

“ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. ”

- Bible

“ All war is deception. ”

- Sun tzu

“ War is based on deception. ”

- Sun tzu

“ You k'n hide de fier, but what you guine do wid de smoke? ”

- Joel Chandler Harris

“ One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. ”

- Bible

“ Whip me such honest knaves! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. ”

- George Eliot

“ It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament, — the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it. ”

- Junius

“ There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, Yes, you know he is a crook. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ”

- Antonio Porchia

“ Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. ”

- Plato

“ Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ”

- E. R. Beadle

“ Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. ”

- Mark Van Doren

“ A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. ”

- Euripides

“ Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ”

- Demosthenes
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