Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar but is a stab at the health of human society.
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Deceive yourself by yielding to soft words that cause no pain; enslave yourself by yielding to harsh words that cause no pleasure.
When we are afraid, we betray our intellect to save our skin.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
No mask like open truth to cover lies, as to go naked is the best disguise.
The greatest skill of all is the skill of anticipation.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
The easiest way to deceive oneself is to refuse to admit the truth.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
The truly intelligent person is one who can pretend to be a fool with ease in front of a fool who pretends to be intelligent.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
The best way to hide something from someone is to hide it in plain sight.