Deceptive Actions Quotes

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Seeming to do is not doing.

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.