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Letter "D" » Deceit
"God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause."
Author: Aeschylus
About: Deceit
"There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the
cat in the pan."
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Deceit
"Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world
But those who slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot that presses them?
There are who in the path of social life
Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul."
Author: Joanna Baillie
About: Deceit
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all of the time."
Author: Phineas T. Barnum
About: Deceit
"What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he
hid himself among women."
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
About: Deceit
"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Deceit
"The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.
[Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]"
Author: Cardinal Carlo Carafa (or Caraffa)
About: Deceit
"A sheep in sheep's clothing."
Author: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3)
About: Deceit
"It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
[Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Deceit
"Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who
are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare."
Author: Lord Thomas Denman
About: Deceit
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