Deceit Quotations | Page 2

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

The government may have won in court, but the questions in Parliament are only just beginning. The proceedings in court have flushed out a catalogue of contemptible conduct which displays corruption and deceit at the heart of this government.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.