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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Author: Aeschylus
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.
Author: Francis Bacon
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.
Author: Joanna Baillie
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.
Author: Phineas T. Barnum
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.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Urn Burial (ch. V)
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If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
Author: Robert Burton
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.]
Author: Cardinal Carlo Carafa (or Caraffa)
Source: said to have used this expression in reference to the devout Parisians
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A sheep in sheep's clothing.
Author: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3)
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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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.
Author: Lord Thomas Denman
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.
Author: John Dryden
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.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.]
Author: Goldoni
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.
Author: Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte)
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!"
Author: John Hay
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.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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?]
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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.]
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
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.]
Author: Francois de la Noue ("Bras de Fer")
Source: La Coquette Corrigee (I, 3)
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One may outwit another, but not all the others.
[Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin
que tous les autres.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxim (394)
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
Author: John Locke
Source: Human Understanding (bk. III, ch. X, 34)
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Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the
fox's.
Author: Lysander
Source: his remark on being told he resorted too much to craft, in Plutarch's "Life of Lyander"
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He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 110)
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
[Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Le Tartuffe (IV, 3)
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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.
Author: Christian N. Bovee
Source: None
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Author: Adolf Hitler
Source: None
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Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
Author: Tristan Bernard
Source: None
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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.
Author: Madame de Lambert
Source: None
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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Author: Pierre Charron
Source: None
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
Author: Hitopadesa
Source: None
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Author: Jean De La Fontaine
Source: None
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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.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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We like to be deceived.
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: None
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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.
Author: Francoise Sagan
Source: None
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: None
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues
Source: None
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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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.
Author: Colton
Source: None
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Author: Robert South
Source: None
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a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets
in the Democratic Party.
Author: Al Sharpton
Source: None
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Author: Homer
Source: None
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
Author: P. T. Barnum
Source: None
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