We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies. — Homer Copy Share Image
The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated. — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Lies will always be bitter in the end,no matter how sweet you made it at the beginning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
One of the most hurtful events that we experience when a relationship ends is to know the fact that after you have… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
“Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity,… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Drama, chaos, lies and deceit so if we were friends and no longer are friends, I'm done with you I'm never going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By scolding, one will not tell you the truth and use deceit. All this deceptions in the world are created due to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Truth is never a straight line; it is a circle that will take you back to what you know, in order to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
“I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [ Jean den Meun (author of the Romance of the Rose… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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