Dishonesty

"But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice."

"Man wird betrogen, man betrügt sich selbst."

"Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole."

"Which I wish to remark— And my language is plain,— That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar."

"The angel answer'd, "Nay, sad soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!""

"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."

"Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'être, qui est plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?"

"On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge."

"Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur."

"Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot; L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot."

"On pout être plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres."

"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 the time."

"It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived."

"Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's."

"He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow."

"On est aisément dupé par ce qu'on aime."

"Impia sub dulci melle venena latent."

"Pia fraus."

"Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriæ non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra."

"Fronte politus Astutam vapido servas sub pectore vulpem."

"Habent insidias hominis blanditiæ mali."

"Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat."

"Singuli enim decipere et decipi possunt: nemo omnes, neminem omnes fefellunt."

"Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois."

"Wir betrügen und schmeicheln niemanden durch so feine Kunstgriffe als uns selbst."

"Orlando's helmet in Augustine's cowl."

"Hinc nunc præmium est, qui recta prava faciunt."

"Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger."

"Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost."

"Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame."

"Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away."

"Lie not, neither to thyself nor men nor God. Let mouth and heart be one — beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie."

"Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards."

"I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance."