Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not…

THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I…

— William Blake

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

— William C. Brown

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

— Francis Quarles

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land.…

— Frederick Douglass

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

— Shannon L Alder

“I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’t trying to be deceitful.”

— Quinn Loftis

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

— Russell Jacoby

People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong…

— Damian Thompson

“The heart is deceitful above all things,         and desperately sick;         who can understand it?”

— Anonymous

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are…

— Henry A. Wallace

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

— Francis Quarles

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

— John Lyly

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann