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quotes by topic Deception

" The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. "

Man , Affection , Boasts , Deception

" Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few. "

Deception

" Drawing is deception. "

Art , Deception

" Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. "

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Flattery , Self , Deception

" I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. "

Robert A. Heinlein

Honesty , Deception

" Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. "

Honesty , Deception

" I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do. "

Deception

" A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. "

Agatha Christie

Deception , humour

" 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. "

Charles Dickens

Appearance , Deception

" I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it. "

Charles Dickens

Deception

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