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;void(0)) DECEPTION . . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: APPEARANCE CANDOR CHARLATANS, CHEATS CLEVER CORRUPTION CRIME & PUNISHMENT DISGUISE DISHONESTY EVASION EXAGGERATION FALSEHOOD FRAUDS GULLIBLE HYPOCRISY ILLUSIONS IMPOSTORS LIES MYSTERY PHONIES PLAGIARISM PRANKS PRETENDING PRETENTIONS PROPAGANDA PSYCHICS SCOUNDREL SELF-DECEPTION SELLING OUT TAKING ADVANTAGE TREACHERY, TREASON VILLAINS WEASELS - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. --Bible New Testament, "Matthew" 7:15 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. --Bible "Proverbs" 20:17 - While your friend holds you afffectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. --William Blake (1757—1827) English poet. "Auguries of Innocence" [c.1803] - Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison. --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. In Louis Klopsch _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_ p. 66 [1896]. - The world wants to be deceived. --Sebastian Brant (1457—1521) German satirical poet. _The Ship of Fools_ (Das Narrenschiff) [1494] The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873) British novelist and politician. I begin to smell a rat. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605-1615] Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 4, ch. 10 There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880) American clergyman and author. It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. --Noël Coward (1899—1973) English playwright, actor, and composer. _Blithe Spirit_ There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880) English novelist. _Romola_, p. 443 [1886] It is in the ability to deceive oneself that one shows the greatest talent. --Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844—1924) French novelist, man of letters, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. In the end, deceivers deceive themselves. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. --John Gay (1685—1732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_ [1727] "The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf" We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In James Wood _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources: Including Phrases_ [1899] No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. --Fulke Greville (1554—1628) English philosophical poet. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. --William Hazlitt (1778—1830) English essayist. Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek epic poet. _The Iliad_, bk. IX Her mouth is a honey-blossom, No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals, Lurks a cruel bee that stings. --William Dean Howells (1837—1920) American novelist and critic. Th' feller that agrees with ever'thing you say is either a fool er he is gettin' ready t' skin you. --Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930) American humorist. The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678], Maxim 127 Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. --R.D. Laing (1927—1989) Scottish psychiatrist. _The Politics of Experience_ [1967] I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless, the poison is in the sugar. --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966) Polish writer. People are not always what they seem. --Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781) German dramatist. _Nathan der Weise_ [1779] You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. Attributed. First published in Alexander K. McClure _Abe Lincoln's Yarns and Stories_ [1904]. (Also attributed to Phineas Barnum.) Men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. --Niccolò Machiavelli (1469—1527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. _The Prince_ [written 1513] The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. One is easily fooled by that which one loves. --Jean Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622—1673) French comic dramatist. _Le Tartuffe_, IV, 3 In Kate Louise Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p.183 [1922]. Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.) Roman poet. He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. --Titus Maccius Plautus (254—184 BC) Roman comic dramatist. With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. --Robert Pollok (1799—1827) Scottish poet. O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! --Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832) Scottish novelist and poet. _Marmion_ [1808], canto 6, st. 17 This above all, to thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1601], I, iii, 78 The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be, and who does not, upon many occasions, give credit to tales, which not only turn out to be perfectly false, but which a very moderate degree of reflection and attention might have taught him could not well be true. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. --Adam Smith (1723—1790) Scottish economist. _The Theory of Moral Sentiments_ [1759], pt. VII , sec. IV - We should not believe every word and suggestion, but should carefully consider all things in accordance with the will of God. For such is the weakness of human nature, alas, that evil is often more readily believed and spoken of another than good. But perfect men do not easily believe every tale that is told them, for they know that man's nature is prone to evil, and his words to deception. --Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471) German ascetical writer. _The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420], Book 1, Chapter 4: "On Prudence in Action" - Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. ----- artifice (noun) 1. clever trick: a clever trick or stratagem 2. cleverness: the use of clever stratagems or tricks 3. insincere behavior: the deceiving of people in a clever or subtle way captious (adj.) [ 'kæp-shês] Not merely deceptive but designed to (mis)lead you to the wrong conclusion, e.g. a sign, argument, or advertisement; sophistical. chicanery [shih-KAY-nuh-ree], noun: 1. The use of trickery or sophistry to deceive (as in matters of law). 2. A trick; a subterfuge. cozen [KUZ-un], transitive verb: 1. To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by petty tricks. 2. To obtain by deceit. 3. To act deceitfully. disingenuous (adj.) [dis-in-'jen-yu-ês] Meanly artful, viciously subtle. A disingenuous person attempts to portray himself as candid and frank, but is really crafty or sly. dissemble (verb) [di-'sem-bêl] To conceal the truth by deceit. duplicity (noun) [du-'pli-sê-tee] (1) The quality of state of being two-fold, double. (2) Deliberate deception, double-dealing. feint (noun) 1. A deceptive action made to disguise what is really intended. 2. A deceptive move in a competitive sport. finagle (verb) [fê-'ney-gl] To obtain indirectly through cajoling, bribes, or questionable dealings. illude (verb) [i-'lud] 1. To trick, to deceive; 2. To mock, to ridicule. allude = refer indirectly elude = escape, get away from delude = deceive by false impression inveigle (verb) [in-'vey-gêl] To persuade by flattery or cajolery, to lure with clever words or trickery that blur the truth, to trick by deception. Machiavellian (adj.) [mak-ee-ê-'vel-ee-ên] (1) Characterized by unscrupulous cunning, deception, or expediency; (2) manipulative, resorting to exploiting and misleading others in pursuit of one's personal goals. machination (noun) [mæ-kê-'ney-shên] A devioius scheme, an act of intrique. mendacious [men-DAY-shuhs], adjective: 1. Given to deception or falsehood; lying; untruthful; as, a mendacious person. 2. False; untrue; as, a mendacious statement. Synonyms: deceitful, dishonest, false, fraudulent. palaver [puh-LAV-uhr; puh-LAH-vur], noun: 1. Idle talk 2. Talk intended to beguile or deceive. 3. A parley usually between persons of different backgrounds or cultures or levels of sophistication; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation. 4. To talk idly. 5. To flatter; to cajole. sanctimonious (adj.) [sængk-tê-'mo-ni-ês] Making a show of piety, sanctity; pretending to be pious or religious. snollygoster (noun) ['sna-li-gah-stêr] (Regional slang) An unscrupulous but shrewd person; a hob-goblin that preys on naughty boys, girls and poultry (sometimes called a "snallygaster"). The word originated in the Pennsylvania-Maryland area of the Eastern United States but occurs widely now in the Northeast. Etymology: In some areas of the Eastern United States, parents keep their children ruly with warnings about the evil snollygoster or snallygaster, a nocturnal monster that is part bird, part reptile, and pounces with incredible swiftness when least expected. subterfuge [SUB-tur-fyooj], noun: A deceptive device or stratagem. end page | DANCING - DAY | DEATH - PAGE 1 (A-G) | DEATH - PAGE 2 (H-Z) | DEBATE - DEEDS | DECEPTION | DEFEAT - DELAY | DEMOCRACY | DENIAL - DESIRE | DESPAIR - DICKENS (CHARLES) | DICTIONARY - DILIGENCE | DINNER - DISABILITY | DISAGREEMENT - DISGUISE | DISHONESTY - DOCTORS | DOGS | (ON) DOING GOOD - DREAMS | DRESS - DRUNKENNESS | DUELS - DUTY | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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