Japanese Proverb Quotes

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

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

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

All confrontation is based on deception.