Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image