Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.

That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Great liars are also great magicians.

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

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

The world wants to be deceived.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

Power is seductive.

In my business, my job is to make people believe they are seeing something they're not seeing.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.