Deceit Quotes

There is no wickedness so desperate or deceptive we can never foresee its consequences.

Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Froude.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Crabbe.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Hawthorne.

Idiots only may be cozened twice.

Dryden.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

E.H. Chapin.

It is as easy to deceive one’s self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.

Rochefoucauld.

We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery  adds malice to falsehood.

Bruyere.

Our double dealing generally comes down upon ourselves. To speak or act a lie is alike contemptible in the sight of God and man.

Everton.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

Bulwer.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Greville.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
A.Hill

Who darks think one thing and another tell, my heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Pope.

The first and worst of all frauds is to chest one’s self. All sin is easy after that.

Bailey.

He that has no real esteem for any of the virtues, can best assume the appearance of them all.

Colton.

When once a concealment or a deceit has been practiced in matters where all should be fair and open as day, confidence can never be restored, any more than you can restore the white bloom to the grape or plum that you once pressed in your hand.

H.W. Beecher.

O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

Walter Scott.

Many an honest man practices on himself an amount of deceit, sufficient, if practiced on another, and in a little different way, to sent him to the state prison.

Bovee.

Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed.

Mackenzie.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to oractice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

South.

There are three persons you should never deceive: your physician, your confessor, and your lawyer.

Walpole.

Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.

Rochefoucauld.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others, because we first deceived ourselves.

Sir P. Sidney.