Deception/motives

Famous quotes containing the words deception and/or motives:

“A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)