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.
?Christian N. Bovee
The great masses of the people
will more easily fall victims to a
big lie than to a small one.
?Adolf Hitler
Men are always sincere. They
change sincerities, that's all.
?Tristan Bernard
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.
?Madame de Lambert
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe
yourself to be more cunning than others.
?Pierre Charron
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools,
that don't have brains enough to be honest.
?Benjamin Franklin
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects,
and discovering the weaknesses of others.
?William Hazlitt
The people of the world having once been
deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
?Hitopadesa
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
?Jean De La Fontaine
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.
?Abraham Lincoln
We like to be deceived.
?Blaise Pascal
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.
?Francoise Sagan
For I have sworn thee fair, and
thought thee bright, who art as
black as hell, as dark as night.
?William Shakespeare
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
Don't part with your illusions. When
they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
?Mark Twain
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
?Marquis De Vauvenargues
Get your facts first, and then you can
distort them as much as you please.
?Mark Twain
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.
?Colton
