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“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“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.”
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“The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm”
Sylvia Plath Quotes |
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3) Quotes Source: about Clement Atlee
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“It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
[Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Murena (XXX)
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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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“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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“We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
[Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Spruche in Prosa (III)
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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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“You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the
greater dupe, he or you?
[Fr., Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'etre, qui est
plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?]”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: Les Caracteres (V)
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“We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to
falsehood.
[Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice
au mensonge.]”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: Les Caracteres (XI)
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“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Fables (II, 15)
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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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