Edward Coke Quotes

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

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.

The world loves to be deceived.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

The whole world is run on bluff.

Great liars are also great magicians.

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.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

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

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

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.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.