Masking True Intentions Quotes

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

I pretend to be a gentleman, and, when the other fellow finds out, it is too late.

There is no trusting appearances.

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.