Deceit Quotes

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

White in the moon the long road lies.

— A. E. Housman

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

— Dave Eggers

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-deceit is a sure defeat.

— Tasneem Hameed

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

— William Shakespeare

IN THE KINGDOM OF DECEIT,LIE IS THEIR KING.

— CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

— Dejan Stojanovic

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

— Willie Stargell

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

— John Dryden

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...

— Emily Dickinson

Not every lies is a deceit, sometimes we have to lie to protects those we love.

— Blaze Olamiday

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.”

— George Orwell

“A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.”

— Dennis E. Adonis

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— Mak_786

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

— Anonymous

“Because she was trying to flee from them, they regarded her as a fugitive from the jaws of the Alligator.”

— Kwei Quartey

“Dressed in an expensive-looking dark gray suit, the man was in his early sixties and had the air of one accustomed to…

— Kwei Quartey

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And…

— Leo Tolstoy

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in…

— Cheryl Strayed

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The…

— William Shakespeare

“Where there is deceit [kapat], there is a beating and insult is the ‘fruit’ of self-pride [maan]. This is ‘our’ discovery.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic…

— Norman Angell

“Truth has legs that are longer than any of our lies. In time it will catch up to us, not because the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want…

— Pietro Aretino

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the…

— Pablo Picasso

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit;…

— Samuel Johnson

“Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed…

— Dada Bhagwan

I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother…

— George Best

I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted…

— Rodney A. Smolla

“Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.…

— Cassandra Giovanni

What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care,…

— Ilana Mercer

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;…

— Mark Twain

The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its…

— Leo Tolstoy

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what…

— George Orwell

“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as…

— Mikhail Bakunin

So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus…

— Naji Sabri

Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting,…

— Criss Jami

The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find…

— William Butler Yeats