"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."

"There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan."

"God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause."

"I never lie, even to this day. Not even a little. Unless you count playing pranks on people, which I don't. That's comedy. Entertainment doesn't count. A joke is different from a lie, even if the difference is kind of subtle."

"A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide."

"All warfare is based on deception."

"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."

"I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when faced with nuclear disaster is basic."

"When dishonest men come to your banquet, they are troubled and try to hide it."

"The dishonest man stole silver; the honest man will earn his pay."

"A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble."

"Bread gained by deceit tastes good to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel."

"The righteous one hates lies, but the actions of the wicked bring shame and disgrace."

"Truthful lips will endure forever, but a lying tongue will last for only a moment."

"O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!"

"Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile."

"Who makes the fairest show means most deceit."

"Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me, For making him egregiously an ass."

"The world is still deceiv'd with ornament, In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"

"The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence."

"A quicksand of deceit."

"But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow."

"They fool me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by."

"With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole."

"O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!"

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

"Engin mieulx vault que force."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"The rulers wanted to fool people, since they saw that people have a kinship with what is truly good. They took the names of the good and assigned them to what is not good, to fool people with names and link the names to what is not good. So, as if they were doing people a favor, they took names from what is not good and transferred them to the good, in their own way of thinking. For they wished to take free people and enslave them forever."

"So rid yourselves of all badness and deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all backbiting."

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies."

"Do not lie to one another. Strip off the old personality with its practices."

"Therefore, now that you have put away deceit, each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, because we are members belonging to one another."

"Do not deceive one another."

"In the majority of cases which are brought to me as a consulting psychologist for love and marital adjustment, there are self-deceptions to be uncovered as well as attempts to deceive other people. Beneath such love conflicts there is almost always a festering psychological core of dishonesty."

"Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare, However pure the breast, to lay it bare?"

"A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on."

"Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth."

"When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction."

"Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported."

"You will destroy those who speak lies. Jehovah detests violent and deceptive people."

"You know where you are with a complete liar, but when a chap mixes some truth with his yarns, you can't trust a word he says."

"Where this will end? In the Abyss, one may prophecy; whither all Delusions are, at all moments, travelling; where this Delusion has now arrived. For if there be a Faith, from of old, it is this, as we often repeat, that no Lie can live for ever. The very Truth has to change its vesture, from time to time; and be born again. But all Lies have sentence of death written down against them, and Heaven's Chancery itself; and, slowly or fast, advance incessantly towards their hour."

"Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits…. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind."

"You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion."

":As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet"

"If I take the wages of everyone here, individually it means nothing, but collectively all of the earning power or wages that you earned in one week would make me wealthy. And if I could collect it for a year, I'd be rich beyond dreams. Now, when you see this, and then you stop and consider the wages that were kept back from millions of Black people, not for one year but for three hundred and ten years, you'll see how this country got so rich so fast. And what made the economy as strong as it is today. And all that slave labor that was amassed in unpaid wages, is due someone today. And you're not giving us anything when we say that it's time to collect."

"There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money…for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time…Exertions to raise it by dint of industry ceases. It comes easy and is spent freely and many things indulged in that would never be thought of, if to be purchased by the sweat of the brow. In the mean time, the debt is accumulating like a snowball in rolling."