# Quotes about deception - Quotes: 20 - Authors: 17 - Broader topic: [Quotes about lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.json ## Quotes > The deceived has the better of the deceiver. [Giovanni Boccaccio](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio.md) · [The Decameron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron/the-deceived-has.md) Topics: [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > He who is wicked and held to be good, can cheat because no one imagines he would. [Giovanni Boccaccio](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio.md) · [The Decameron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron/he-who-is-wicked.md) Topics: [appearances](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Jean de La Fontaine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine.md) · [Fables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables/it-is-a-double.md) Topics: [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > I’ve never had the slightest interest in matters of the occult. People have been repeating the same kinds of fraud throughout the world since the beginning of time, using the same old tricks, and still these despicable fakes continue to thrive. That is because most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth. Their eyes may be wide open, but they don’t see a thing. Tricking them is as easy as twisting a baby’s arm. [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [1Q84](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/1q84.md) · p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/1q84/ive-never-had.md) Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [self-deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-deception-2.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > In the old words of wisdom, you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, and that’s usually enough to get by. [Charles Sheffield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield.md) · [The Mind Pool](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool.md) · p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/the-mind-pool/in-the-old.md) Topics: [manipulation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > A new racket, probably. A depression breeds rackets as a swamp breeds mosquitoes. [Fredric Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown.md) · [Martians, Go Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/martians-go-home.md) · p. 277 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fredric-brown/martians-go-home/a-new-racket.md) Topics: [poverty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poverty.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > Here's the rule for bargains — 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Martin Chuzzlewit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit/heres-the-rule.md) Topics: [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > "Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else." [Banksy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy.md) · [Wall and Piece](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy/wall-and-piece.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy/wall-and-piece/become-good-at-cheating.md) Topics: [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > Know what you’re doing and you’ll never need to cheat. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [The Great War: Walk in Hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell.md) · p. 383 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/know-what-youre.md) Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > There was no pleasure like double-crossing a crook. [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson.md) · [Red Mars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars.md) · p. 395 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars/there-was-no-pleasure.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > The fact was that American enterprise in the twenties had opened its hospitable arms to an exceptional number of promoters, grafters, swindlers, impostors, and frauds. [John Kenneth Galbraith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith.md) · [The Great Crash 1929](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith/the-great-crash-1929.md) · p. 178 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith/the-great-crash-1929/the-fact-was.md) Topics: [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on. [Donald J. Trump](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donald-j-trump.md) · [Trump: The Art of the Deal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donald-j-trump/trump-the-art-of-the-deal.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/donald-j-trump/trump-the-art-of-the-deal/you-cant-con.md) Topics: [advertising](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advertising.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb.md) · [Antifragile](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile.md) · p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/if-you-see.md) Topics: [silence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/silence.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > [In] economics... you can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment. Now the spirit of such methods, called scientism by its detractors, continued into the discipline of finance as a few technicians thought their mathematical knowledge could lead them to understand markets. The practice of financial engineering came along with massive doses of pseudoscience. (page 115) [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb.md) · [Fooled by Randomness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/fooled-by-randomness.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/fooled-by-randomness/in-economics-you.md) Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > Ramp hawkers were peddling “methods,” low priced sure-fire theories guaranteed to predict bottle twitches and beat the whole Minimax game. The hawkers were ignored by the hurrying throngs of people; anybody with a genuine system of prediction would be using it, not selling it. [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md) · [Solar Lottery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/solar-lottery.md) · p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/solar-lottery/ramp-hawkers-were.md) Topics: [gambling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gambling.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > Many religions lay out a set of precepts... and claim that these instructions were given by a god or gods. For example, the first code of law by Hammurabi of Babylon... was handed to him by the god Marduk... this is a bamboozle... a pious hoax. ...if Hammurabi had merely said, "Here's what I think everybody should do," he would have been much less successful... [Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md) · [The Varieties of Scientific Experience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience/many-religions-lay.md) Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [law](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. [Carl Sagan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan.md) · [The Demon-Haunted World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-demon-haunted-world.md) · p. 241 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-demon-haunted-world/one-of-the.md) Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > It is one of the misfortunes of the rich to be cheated on all sides; what wonder they think ill of mankind! It is riches that corrupt men, and the rich are rightly the first to feel the defects of the only tool they know. Everything is ill-done for them, except what they do themselves, and they do next to nothing. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/it-is-one-of.md) Topics: [wealth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force to rise from a base condition to great fortune. [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli.md) · [Discourses on Livy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli/discourses-on-livy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli/discourses-on-livy/cunning-and-deceit.md) Topics: [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md) > Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd all be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-above-board way known as 'doing business'. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Carpet People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people/normally-its-narrow.md) Topics: [irony](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony.md), [business](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/business.md), [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md)