William Maclay Quotes

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

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

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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.

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

Thou [Sir Walter Raleigh] art a monster; thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart.... Thou art the most vile and execrable traitor that ever lived.... There never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou.

He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.

… insidious traitors

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

The ingenuity of these people is singular in their secret modes of mischief.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

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

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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