Johann G. Seume Quotes

The world loves to be deceived.

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

Deception is everywhere.

The world wants to be deceived.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

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

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

All confrontation is based on deception.

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

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

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

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

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

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths.

The whole world is run on bluff.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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.