It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The worst part of being lied to, is knowing you were not worthy of the truth. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“Memory is most fickle among the guilty. Fine, no one steps forward, no one lives!” — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies. — Dave Collins Copy Share Image
“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
“If the intellect functions in wrong direction, it is deceit and if it turns in the right direction, it will get one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
“And it made me love him a little less, and the memory of that smile hurt deep down in the place where… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's… — James Walsh Copy Share Image
I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It… — Rupert Lowe Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I know you so well. You act like you're so nice. You act like you really care. You act like you truly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we tell half-truths in an attempt to maintain social norms and values, we risk losing both our integrity and the maintenance… — Ptera Hunter Copy Share Image
The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell;… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“I understand it was Derian who spoiled everything. He purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to go along with… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It was not for me, after these last seventy-two hours, to reject as too outlandish the possibility that the situation for him… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Control over anger-pride-deceit-greed is known as saiyam. Saiyam, in turn has two parts; in one, there is presence of anger-pride-deceit-greed but they… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image