268 quotes found
“Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.”
“What we need is a rebirth of satire of dissent of irreverence of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.”
“If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.”
“I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.”
“One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.”
“Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.”
“Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.”
“A delusion a mockery and a snare.”
“Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.”
“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.”
“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 the time.”
“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
“"Will you walk into my parlour?" Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy."”
“One is easily fooled by that which one loves.”
“All warfare is based on deception.”
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
