Francois Fenelon Quotes

A humbug!!

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner hustler.

Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

The whole world is run on bluff.

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

Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catchwords, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

The world loves to be deceived.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

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.

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

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

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.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

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

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.

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.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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