I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit. — Michael Gilbert Copy Share Image
Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any… — Anton Szandor LaVey 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
Everyone sees who I appear to be but only a few know the real me. you only see what I choose to… — Unkown Copy Share Image
To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I should be an actor because I'm pretty dang good at hiding the pain. — Kenny Janssen Copy Share Image
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I prefer to be broken with the ugly truth then fall in love with your beautiful lies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lover's hire. — William Blake 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
