It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.
Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.
I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.
The worst crime is faking it.
The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
... gross, barefaced inconsistency.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
He who serves two masters has to lie to one.
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.
Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
No person can 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.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
