John Milton Quotes

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

Is there any way we can screw him?

People are not what they seem. Some of them are sweet and kind to you, but that's not their real face.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.