#Deception Quotes

“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”

“All hoods make not monks.”

“Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.”

“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”

“The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself”

“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words”

“I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)”

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

“You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.”

“Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.”

“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.”

“There is flattery in friendship.”

“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.”

“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.”

“Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!”

“They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.”

“But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.”

“DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.”

“Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.”

“Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.”

“O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.”

“So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.”

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

“I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.”

“Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.”

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

“He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”

“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.”

“Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever”

“He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.”

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”

“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.”

“I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world”

“For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men.”

“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

“Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am”

“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.”

“I know them, yea,And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;And this is all.”

“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”

“If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?”

“Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.”

“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions”

“All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!”

“Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.”

“I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.”

“Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.”

“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”

“Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.”

“All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”