Deceit Quotes
645 quotes by 491 authors
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes…
— Hannah Arendt
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something…
— Pietro Aretino
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
— Jane Austen
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
— Francis Bacon
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
— Henry Adams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to…
— Glenn Beck
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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
— Theodor Adorno
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I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
— Lucien Bouchard
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
— Joseph Butler
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
— Kim Cattrall
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There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted.…
— Dick Cheney
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
— Lord Chesterfield
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
— Winston Churchill
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
— John Arbuthnot
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The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is…
— Paul Kurtz
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The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every…
— John Peter Altgeld
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
— Bernard Nathanson
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