Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

The world loves to be deceived.

The whole world is run on bluff.

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

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.

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

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

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

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

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.

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

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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.

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

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.