Deceit Quotes

645 quotes by 455 authors

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded… — Lee Greenwood
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. — Jean Anouilh
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and… — Peter Stuyvesant
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful. — Neil LaBute
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. — Aeschylus
Wiles and deceit are female qualities. — Aeschylus
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. — Sophie Arnould
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims. — Honore de Balzac
You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch… — Michael Ondaatje
She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese,… — Jodi Picoult
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other… — James Joyce
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you… — Anne Rice
As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where… — Bryan Robson
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part — Paul Hirsch
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. — Boyle Roche

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