Quotes about Deception

He who interprets doubtful matters for the best, may happen to be deceived more often than not; yet it is better to err frequently through thinking well of a wicked man, than to err less frequently through having an evil opinion of a good man, because in the latter case an injury is inflicted, but not in the former.

Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Roses, she thought sardonically, All trash, m'dear.

Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the writers of false books, faked books, books that fill the air with decay and disease?

They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.

How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with loose women among treasure sacks in the holds of pirate ships?...

Keep up appearances whatever you do.