A pious fraud. [ Ovid ]
Trust not to outward show. [ Juvenal ]
Think not I am what I appear. [ Byron ]
We are our own aptest deceiver. [ Goethe ]
The best of women are hypocrites. [ Thackeray ]
Yet still we hug the dear deceit. [ Nathaniel Cotton ]
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive. [ Sir Walter Scott, Marmion ]
Trust not in him that seems a saint. [ Fuller ]
Fraud and deceit are always in haste. [ Proverb ]
Gold all is not that doth golden seem. [ Spenser ]
Life is the art of being well-deceived. [ Hazlitt ]
We are easily fooled by that which we love. [ Moliere ]
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. [ Goethe ]
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made.
To turn a penny in the way of trade. [ Cowper ]
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs? [ J. P. Kemble ]
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]
Beauty? thou pretty plaything! dear deceit,
That steals so softly over the stripling's heart
And gives it a new pulse unknown before! [ Blair ]
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [ La Fontaine ]
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [ Cicero ]
To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [ Richelieu ]
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [ William Shakespeare ]
Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men. [ Cicero ]
Deadly poisons are often concealed under sweet honey. [ Ovid ]
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [ Goldoni ]
Oh, that deceit should dwell in sucb a gorgeous palace! [ William Shakespeare ]
The smooth speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. [ Phaedrus ]
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can stay a fair leisure. [ Proverb ]
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]
You should not live one way in private, another in public. [ Syrus ]
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. [ Bovee ]
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. [ George Eliot ]
He carries a store in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [ Plautus ]
Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]
It is riot being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. [ Mme. Sophie Arnould ]
The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception. [ Adam Ferguson ]
We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood. [ Bruyere ]
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. [ Glanvill ]
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. [ Martial ]
It is a pity that we so often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. [ Empress Irene ]
By art and deceit men live half the year, and by deceit and art the other half. [ Proverb ]
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong conduct appear right. [ Terence ]
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do our own selves. [ Schopenhauer ]
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. [ Pope ]
No one has deceived the whole world, nor has the whole world ever deceived any one. [ Pliny the Younger ]
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. [ Trench ]
The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. [ Hitopadesa ]
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet, - deceit sugar-coated. [ Latimer ]
There is no man easier to deceive than he who hopes; for he aids in his own deceit. [ Bossuet ]
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. [ Bailey ]
There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears - the one of grief, the other of deceit. [ Pythagoras ]
With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. [ Dryden ]
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. [ Demosthenes ]
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. [ Froude ]
Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, not do they long deceive. [ La Bruyere ]
A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]