Deceptive Behavior Quotes

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

You talk one way, you live another.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

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.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

What I found in my research on Trump's charitable giving was that often he would promise something and then never deliver, but sort of go around with people believing he'd done this thing he's promised.

It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.