Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
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Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Bible
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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.
Phineas T. Barnum
Quotes , Source: often attributed to Lincoln but denied by Spofford
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Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who
are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Lord Thomas Denman
Quotes , Source: O'Connell vs. the Queen, II Clark and Finnelly Reports 351
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The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the
honest man walks away and is silent.
[Fr., Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot;
L'honnete homme trompe s'eloigne et ne dit mot.]
Francois de la Noue ("Bras de Fer")
Quotes , Source: La Coquette Corrigee (I, 3)
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Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the
fox's.
Lysander
Quotes , Source: his remark on being told he resorted too much to craft, in Plutarch's "Life of Lyander"
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain
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If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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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
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Aeschylus
Quotes , Source: Frag. Incert. (II)
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There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Essays--Of Cunning
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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.
Joanna Baillie
Quotes , Source: De Montfort (act I, sc. 2)
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What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women.
Sir Thomas Browne
Quotes , Source: Urn Burial (ch. V)
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The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.
[Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]
Cardinal Carlo Carafa (or Caraffa)
Quotes , Source: said to have used this expression in reference to the devout Parisians
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But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 982)
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
[It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]
Goldoni
Quotes , Source: La Villeggiatura (I, 12)
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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.
Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte)
Quotes , Source: Plain Language from Truthful James, (Heathen Chinee)
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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 Hay
Quotes , Source: A Woman's Love
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell,
Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart,
Utters another.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. IX, l. 386), (Bryant's translation)
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