deception, n.All

Ninjas relied on deception more than combat.

Why are fish easy to fool?Because they’re so gill-able

Why's it hard to pull one over on farmers?They are well-trained in smelling bull

Deception is so bitterly difficult to be on the receiving end of because those who deceive us think they are cleverer than we are.

Deception is not always bad. Man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

Deception is beneficial in that, first, it lays asleep opposition, second it reserves for oneself a fair retreat in case of failure, and third it opens oneself to the discovery of the other's mind insofar as opposition is not provoked.

Deception is a kind of mourning for the humiliation at not having deserved the other's trust.

I don’t understand why used car salesmen get such a bad rap. Mine knocked 15 bucks off the windshield wiper tax just because he found me to be a good guy.

Deception is detestable in all things but in the conduct of war where it is laudable and honorable.

Deception is a thing we do not like to admit to having been exposed to. It is far easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Deception is in our very nature. Man did not acquire speech in order to reveal his thoughts but in order to conceal them.

Deception is always self-deception. One is never deceived... one deceives oneself.