I have always lived in a world of deceit. And amidst the lies, I was able to find my true treasure — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you lay a foundation of lies, you build a structure of mistrust. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
The first characteristic of sexual sin is deceit. It never delivers what it promises. It offers great satisfaction but gives great disappointment.… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder… — Chad Jones Copy Share Image
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul 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
“Truth has legs that are longer than any of our lies. In time it will catch up to us, not because the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I tell the newly elected: the truth is gonna get out—it always does—but it’s gonna blend in with all the… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers… — NisiOisiN Copy Share Image
“Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime. — Rajnath Singh Copy Share Image
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In the essence of truth lies deceit. Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient. — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I would rather live a life alone, than live a life based on lies, deceit and manipulation” — Linda Simpson Copy Share Image
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image