Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

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

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.

What renders us so bitter against those who trick us is that they believe themselves to be more clever than we are.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

If such people ask news of me,-be silent, or say that I am dead. Let me be dead to them as they are dead to me.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part of dupes.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

Man is practised in disguise; He cheats the most discerning eyes.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

We are easily duped by those we love.

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