Deceit Quotes
645 Deceit quotes by 455 unique authors
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In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences…
— Libba Bray
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Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own…
— Kristin Cashore
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
— Vladimir Lenin
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One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is…
— Steven Dietz
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If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that…
— Bill Maher
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The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large…
— Charlie Pierce
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
— Ted Nugent
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The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
— Noam Chomsky
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The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying…
— Noam Chomsky
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To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be…
— Moshe Sharett
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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things…
— Bible
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
— George Orwell
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And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit…
— Bible
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Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the…
— Sorin Cerin
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Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure
— Proverb
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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found…
— Lucy Parsons
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Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the…
— Sorin Cerin
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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
— George Orwell
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Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they stand up…
— Quran
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Beware of the people you let close to you. Know the difference between those who'd be honest with you and those that hide behind a…
— Jjadedluver
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I wasn't always a pillar of ice. My kindness and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill took…
— Unknown Author
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Its amazing what a smile can hide.
— MJ Korvan
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself...Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion…
— Unknown Author
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