Deceit Quotes · Page 15

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

— Shakespeare

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

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

— John Tillotson

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

— Vernon Howard

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

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

— Seneca the Younger

“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to…

— Sunday Adelaja

The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you…

— Gail Tsukiyama

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

— Chris Christie

As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and…

— Bryan Robson

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express…

— Richard Bach

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to…

— Heinrich Heine

Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable…

— Ayn Rand

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of…

— Melvin B. Tolson

I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church…

— Mark Dever

“All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the ‘protectors’. They have…

— Dada Bhagwan

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong…

— Barack Obama

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful…

— Albert Pike

I have spoken to Paul and he is now talking to his family and seeing where his future lies, whether it be…

— Nigel Worthington

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

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

— Patti Callahan Henry

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— George Eliot

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— Anonymous

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Samuel Johnson

“Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.”

— John Whitbourn

“A blanket of self-regulated trust on a bed of deceit. 
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— Jarod Kintz

I have always lived in a world of deceit. And amidst the lies, I was able to find my true treasure

— Anonymous

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

— Rashida Rowe