Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
[Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]

We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
[Ger., Man wird betrogen, man betrugt sich selbst.]

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but read more

You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan.

There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to
falsehood.
[Fr., On ne trompe point en read more

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to
falsehood.
[Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice
au mensonge.]

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women.

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

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