The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.
Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
Voters never grow weary of illusory promises.
It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
