Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The world loves to be deceived.

The whole world is run on bluff.

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

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

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

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

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.

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

The world wants to be deceived.

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

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.

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.

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

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

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

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

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

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

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

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.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.