| Author |
Quotes |
| Joanna Baillie | Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. |
| John Dryden | But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. |
| John Hay | The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!" |
| John Locke | It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. |
| Lord Thomas Denman | Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. |
| Lysander | Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. |
| Madame de Lambert | The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. |
| Marquis De Vauvenargues | Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. |
| P T Barnum | Every crowd has a silver lining. |
| Phineas T Barnum | 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. |
| Pierre Charron | The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. |
| Robert Burton | If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. |
| Robert South | All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. |
| Robert Southey | All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. |
| Tristan Bernard | Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. |
| William Hazlitt | Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. |
| John Milton | He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit, But all was false and hollow. |
| Mark Twain | Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. |
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