Deceit Quotes · Page 14

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

— Scott Kahn

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

— John Milton

“Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

— Shakespeare

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

— John Tillotson

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

— James Anthony Froude

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible…

— William Shenstone

“That a mystery must have a resolution is obviously not a requirement of nature. It is, in fact, another deceit of writers”

— Manu Joseph

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want…

— Thomas Sprat

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every…

— Simon Soloveychik

There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

— KM II

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot…

— Tim O'Brien

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are…

— Kristin Cashore

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was…

— T. Scott McLeod

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.…

— George W. Bush

If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up…

— Niketas Stethatos

You made shed a lot of tears that as really weaken my sight, you've broken my heart so many times before which…

— Usman Ismaheel

Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or…

— Oliver E. Williamson

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A…

— Harry Mulisch

“...hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.”

— DaShanne Stokes

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

— George Eliot

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

— Anonymous

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

— Robert Palmer

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

— Phil Ochs

“Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

— D. H. Lawrence

When you lay a foundation of lies, you build a structure of mistrust.

— Rashida Rowe

I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime.

— Rajnath Singh

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!”

— Walter Scott

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

— Edward Kennedy

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

— Anonymous

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

— Francis Bacon

Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed.

— Samuel Johnson

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

— Jean de La Fontaine