Deceit Quotes

645 Deceit quotes by 455 unique authors

How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to… — Ayi Kwei Armah
Let us flee from the deceit of life and its supposed happiness and run to Christ alone, who is the Savior of souls. Him let… — Symeon the New Theologian
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit. — Madonna Ciccone
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street. — Bob Dylan
When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize… — Henry Morton Stanley
There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet. — Robert Palmer
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would… — Charles Caleb Colton
The best of women are hypocrites. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. — James Anthony Froude
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real… — Charles Caleb Colton
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed… — Charles Caleb Colton
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you! — Susan Forward
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let… — Marcus Aurelius
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — Seneca the Younger
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved. — Josh Billings
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. — George Eliot
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Machination is worth more than force. — Francois Rabelais
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are our own aptest deceiver. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee

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