The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
One of my movies was called 'True Lies. ' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
You know what lies are for.
It is my belief. . . that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr. , Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur. ]
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.