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Deceit Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
- The best of women are hypocrites.
- When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies…
More Deceit Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a… — Walter Scott
- Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat. — Wes Fesler
- O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. — Francis Bacon
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin