Deceptive Facade Quotes

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

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!

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

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

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.