Deceit Quotes

645 quotes by 455 authors

We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our… — Mark Gottfried
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let… — Samuel Johnson
That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not… — Floyd Abrams
In 2003, a lot of us were saying, 'Where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden What does Iraq have to do with 911… — George Clooney
He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand.… — Craig Biggio
It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. — John Milton
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet,… — Unknown Author
Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me...If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized… — Charles Manson
Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new… — Steven Soderbergh
You know what lies are for. — Sylvia Plath
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. — Wes Fesler
None are deceived but they that confide. — Benjamin Franklin
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie… — Samuel Johnson
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence. — Samuel Johnson
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which… — Samuel Johnson
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and… — Samuel Johnson
Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed. — Samuel Johnson
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us… — John Scott
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack… — Clare Short

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