“My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; / Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: / What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.”
Bible
“Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?”
Benjamin Franklin
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
“There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet.”
William Blake
“He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.”
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
George Orwell