Deceit - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11560<![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561<![CDATA[Every crowd has a silver lining. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11562<![CDATA[Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11542<![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543<![CDATA[The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11544<![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11545<![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11546<![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11547<![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548<![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11549<![CDATA[We like to be deceived. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11550<![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11551<![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552<![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11553<![CDATA[Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11554<![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11555<![CDATA[Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11556<![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11557<![CDATA[a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets in the Democratic Party. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11559<![CDATA[One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11535<![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536<![CDATA[Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11537<![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11538<![CDATA[One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11539<![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540<![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11541<![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11531<![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11532<![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11533<![CDATA[The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11534<![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11512<![CDATA[Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11513<![CDATA[The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11514<![CDATA[God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11515<![CDATA[There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11516<![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11517<![CDATA[You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11518<![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11519<![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11520<![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521<![CDATA[A sheep in sheep's clothing. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11522<![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11523<![CDATA[Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11524<![CDATA[But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11525<![CDATA[We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. [Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11526<![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11527<![CDATA[Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11528<![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire Was bitterer than ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11529<![CDATA[Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11530