Deceit Quotes
|
|
Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. (Quote by - Ovid)
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers, (Quote by - Greg Abbott)
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. (Quote by - Neil LaBute)
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare. (Quote by - Lord Thomas Denman)
In 2004, the FCC issued a staff report based on erroneous assumptions that kept this costly bundling charade going. Today's FCC report shreds the foundation of this industry-sponsored deceit. (Quote by - Jeannine Kenney)
Machination is worth more than force. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)
After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit. (Quote by - Friedrich Max Muller)
The most deceitful persons spend their lives in blaming deceit, so as to use it on some great occasion to promote some great interest. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they stand up sluggishly; they do it only to be seen of men and do not remember Allah save a little. (Quote by - Quran)
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit. (Quote by - Loretta Lynch)
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. (Quote by - John Dryden)
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. (Quote by - John Locke (1))
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die. (Quote by - Christopher Hampton)
We have few faults that are not more excusable in themselves than are the means which we use to conceal them. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Trust not in him that seems a saint. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
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 ornaments? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs? (Quote by - John P. Kemble)
The easiest person to deceive is one's own self. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. (Quote by - John Scott)
Yet still we hug the dear deceit. (Quote by - Nathaniel Cotton)
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. (Quote by - Christian N Bovee)
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. (Quote by - Homer)
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act (Quote by - George Orwell)
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The best of women are hypocrites. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues)
Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller (1))
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. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. (Quote by - William Cowper)
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception. (Quote by - Senator John Kerry)
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, utters another. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
You were very proficient at looking him (Lay) right straight in the face and telling you were loyal and he could count on you, but you knew in your heart you were stealing from the house. You were successful in your lying and your deceit from 1997 all the way up to 2001, weren't you sir? (Quote by - Mike Ramsey)
We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, With us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit, (Quote by - Janet Reno)
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. (Quote by - John Dryden)
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. (Quote by - Robert South)
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. (Quote by - Hitopadesa)
With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. (Quote by - Robert Pollok)
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive will always find him who will lend himself to be deceived. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. (Quote by - Cicero)
Wiles and deceit are female qualities. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
White matter may provide liars with the tools necessary to master the complex art of deceit. (Quote by - Adrian Raine)
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
He seem'd For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow. (Quote by - John Milton)
One is easily fooled by that which one loves. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty,--woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. (Quote by - Nicholas Edme Retif de la Bretonne)
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The love of Maya makes this mind dance, and the deceit within makes people suffer in pain. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
This industry has left a half-century trail of deceit which has decimated millions of Americans, ... Never have so few caused so much harm to so many for so long, and the day of reckoning has arrived. (Quote by - Stanley Rosenblatt)
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. (Quote by - Sophie Arnould)
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The deceptions which the two sexes play off upon each other bring as many ill-sorted couples into the bonds of Hymen as ever could be done by the arbitrary pairing of a legal matchmaker. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men. (Quote by - Cicero)
Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. (Quote by - George F. Kennan)
When I was stamp'd, some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough. (Quote by - Ed Rollins)
Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Orlando's helmet in Augustine's cowl. (Quote by - Horace Smith and James Smith)
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. (Quote by - George Orwell)
There are falsehoods which represent truth so well that it would be judging ill not to be deceived by them. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
This is more of the deceit they have put together. They are trying to do stuff heavy handed and bamboozle the city. (Quote by - Gary Burke)
The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!" (Quote by - John Hay)
The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. (Quote by - Cardinal Carlo Carafa)
Fraud, deceit, dishonesty ? inappropriate conduct can't be condoned, shouldn't be condoned. (Quote by - Hugh Howser)
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se. (Quote by - June Jordan)
None are deceived but they that confide. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. (Quote by - Steven Deitz)
We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit. (Quote by - Brian Flaherty)
You created the entire universe, and You Yourself bring sustenance to it. Some eat and survive by practicing fraud and deceit; from their mouths they drop falsehood and lies. As it pleases You, You assign them their tasks. Some understand Truthfulness; they are given the inexhaustible treasure. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. (Quote by - Henry A. Wallace)
This is a case of deceit and sheer fraud. (Quote by - Steven Bernstein)
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
That is not to say we don't have issues, but they're not issues of fraud or deceit. (Quote by - Calvin Wilson)
And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after its stability and you should taste evil because you turned away from Allah's way and grievous punishment be your lot. (Quote by - Quran)
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated. (Quote by - Hugh Latimer)
a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jackets in the Democratic Party. (Quote by - Al Sharpton)
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the weight of their deceit. But as long as they survive we will have trouble winning any political battles. (Quote by - Wayne Besen)
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. (Quote by - Lord Clarendon)
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
Clearly there is a pattern of deceit, ... He (Brewer) crafted his story to try to imply James Byrd was dead before they started dragging him. (Quote by - James Gray)
O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Oh, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part (Quote by - Paul Hirsch)
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit. (Quote by - Imam Ali)
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. (Quote by - Lucien Bouchard)
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
And be not like her who unravels her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces after she has spun it strongly. You make your oaths to be means of deceit between you because (one) nation is more numerous than (another) nation. Allah only tries you by this; and He will most certainly make clear to you on the resurrection day that about which you differed. (Quote by - Quran)
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. (Quote by - Sir Fulke Greville)
We are so accustomed to masquerade ourselves before others that we end by deceiving ourselves. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. (Quote by - Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench)
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The government may have won in court, but the questions in Parliament are only just beginning. The proceedings in court have flushed out a catalogue of contemptible conduct which displays corruption and deceit at the heart of this government. (Quote by - Alan Duncan)
Never try to snow a snowman. (Quote by - Bo Belinsky)
The smooth speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
In love deceit almost always goes further than mistrust. (Quote by - Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed. (Quote by - Henry Mackenzie)
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. (Quote by - Ovid)
We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again, (Quote by - Paul McHale)
It is a pity that we so often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. (Quote by - Empress Irene of Athens)
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. (Quote by - Bret Harte)
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger. (Quote by - Martin Farquhar Tupper)
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. (Quote by - Giacomo Casanova)
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. (Quote by - Henry A. Wallace)
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast / And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit. (Quote by - C. Day Lewis)
O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more (Quote by - William Cowper)
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)
You tread on smoldering fires covered by deceitful ashes. (Quote by - Horace)
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong conduct appear right. (Quote by - Terence)
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be. (Quote by - Thomas Sprat)
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's. (Quote by - Lysander)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Swan Lake is one of those grand, beautiful pieces. This is what you think of when you think of classical ballet. It's a fairy tale, really, with all the great themes of good versus evil, the search for true love, treachery and deceit, and how the power of magic may be great, but it's no match for the power of two lovers meant to be together! (Quote by - Tyson Compton)
Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure (Quote by - Proverb)
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. (Quote by - Moshe Sharett)
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Look to her, Moor; if thou host eyes to see: She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee. (Quote by - William Shakespeare )
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. (Quote by - Madame De Lambert)
LAKSHMI or wealth accrues by fair means as well as foul; money is earned by gambling, by various forms of deceit; by highway robbery; by high and low; by all and sundry. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
They fool me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. (Quote by - Carlo Goldoni)
In the past few weeks we have begun to unravel the web of deceit around pirate fishing. The way the legal and illegal ships work together is designed to deceive, but in the end it is a simple case of stealing food from others. (Quote by - Sarah Duthie)
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved. (Quote by - Henry Wheeler Shaw)
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
We are easily fooled by that which we love. (Quote by - Moliere)
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. (Quote by - Plautus)
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it? (Quote by - Clare Short)
But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. (Quote by - John Dryden)
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat. (Quote by - Wes Fessler)
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. (Quote by - Francois De La Noue)
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state, Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy, With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole, Taken to wife. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit. (Quote by - Geoffrey B. Wilson)
He was justly accounted a skilful poisoner who destroyed his victims by bouquets of lovely and fragrant flowers. The art has not been lost; nay, is practised every day,--by the world. (Quote by - Hugh Latimer)
Let me be very, very clear: It's not a question of dark-of-night grabs, or hide-and-seek or deceit on anyone's part. (Quote by - Yitzhak Levy)
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. (Quote by - Tristan Bernard)
The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception. (Quote by - Adam Ferguson)
But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. (Quote by - Seneca)
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. (Quote by - Pericles)
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. (Quote by - Colton)
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females. (Quote by - James Walsh)
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine: Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens. (Quote by - Russell Potts)
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You should not live one way in private, another in public. (Quote by - Syrus)
We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption. (Quote by - George Creel)
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Every crowd has a silver lining. (Quote by - P T Barnum)
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. (Quote by - Ninon de L'Enclos)
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
One may outwit another, but not all the others. (Quote by - Duc De La Rochefoucauld)
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty. (Quote by - George Eliot)
There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet. (Quote by - William Blake)
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. (Quote by - Pierre Charron)
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
There can be no greater labor than to be always dissembling; there being so many ways by which a smothered truth is apt to blaze and break out. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. (Quote by - Francoise Sagan)
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
We are our own aptest deceiver. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before! (Quote by - Robert Blair)
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. (Quote by - Edward Kennedy)
It is in disputes as in armies; where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
This is the way, there is no other that leads to the purifying of intelligence. Go on this way! Everything else is the deceit of Mara the tempter. (Quote by - Friedrich Max Muller)
It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit. (Quote by - Mark Russinovich)
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. (Quote by - John Dryden)
