| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. |
| Adolf Hitler | The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. |
| Aeschylus | God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. |
| Al Sharpton | a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets in the Democratic Party. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. |
| Blaise Pascal | We like to be deceived. |
| Francis Bret Harte | Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. |
| Christian N Bovee | False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. |
| Colton | Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. |
| Francis Bacon | There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. |
| Francoise Sagan | It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. |
| Goldoni | Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. |
| Hitopadesa | The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. |
| Homer | Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. |
| Homer | Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | One is easily fooled by that which one loves. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? |
| Jean de la Bruyere | We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
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