“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Once you know true love you will never again be deceived by its counterfeit.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Becareful who you open up to. Only a few actualy care, the rest just want to have something to gossip about. — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“A man cannot conceal joy," I said, though I wasn't sure where it was coming from, "because joy undoes deceit. What I… — Kristina Meister Copy Share Image
A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is… — Ayad Allawi Copy Share Image
“When laying out a quote on deceit, one must not be bias by using the term him from a female nor her… — Michael S. McKinney Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you… — Bianca Scardoni Copy Share Image
“Women have an encircling wall of deceit around them; therefore, they are not aware of deception, it is their natural attribute. Men… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and… — Rob Andrew Copy Share Image
Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image… — Marvin J. Ashton 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
“The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the… — Thomas Mann 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
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
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