Deceitful Quotes
90 quotes by 81 authors
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
— Jane Austen
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
— Henry Adams
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a…
— Pope John Paul II
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Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.
— Fanny Brice
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Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
— Adolf Hitler
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when…
— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
— Gautama Buddha
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No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in…
— Martin Luther
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I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled…
— David Livingstone
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
— Aesop
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Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor…
— Piers Corbyn
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People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or…
— Damian Thompson
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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
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
— Jean Anouilh
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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
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Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
— Neil LaBute
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You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
— George Eliot
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