DECEIT

Related Subjects: Calumny, Cheating, Conspiracy, Coquetry, Cunning, Delusion, Flattery, Hypocrisy, Lies, Quackery, Trickery

1. God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.—AESCHYLUS
   

2. The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.—BULW ER-LYTTON, The Disowned

3. If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

4. Like the watermen that row one way and look another.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

5. Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore,
   All ashes to the taste.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

6. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.—GOETHE, Spruche in Prosa
   

7. Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
   

8. The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived.—GEORGE JAMES, Richelieu
   

9. It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.—LA FONTAINE, Fables
   

10. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.—LINCOLN
    

11. It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.—LOCKE, Human Understanding
    

12. But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
    Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear
    The better reason, to perplex and dash
    Maturest counsels.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

13. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.—PLATO, The Republic
    

14. Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.—Proverb
    

15. Deceiving of a deceiver is no knavery.—Proverb
    

16. By art and deceit men live half a year; and by deceit and art the other half.—Proverb
    

17. Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
    When first we practise to deceive!—SCOTT, Marmion
    

18. I am falser than vows made in wine.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

19. With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
    With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
    In equal scale weighing delight and dole.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

20. A quicksand of deceit.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI

21. The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
    Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
    In deepest consequence.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

22. It oft falls out,
    To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

23. The seeming truth which cunning times put on
    To entrap the wisest.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

24. Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.—SHAKESPEARE, Pericles
    

25. Was ever book containing such vile matter
    So fairly bound? O! that deceit should dwell
    In such a gorgeous palace.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

26. Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
    And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile.—SHAKESPEARE,Richard III