Quotes about Deception
you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
— Winston Churchill
There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Another translation says:"There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
— Soren Kierkegaard
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
— John Milton
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd the mother of mankind.
— John Milton
The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
— John Milton
Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
— John Milton
But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.
— John Milton
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
— John Milton
Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
— John Milton
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
— John Milton