Deceitful Quotes
90 Deceitful quotes by 79 unique authors
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Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But…
— William Shakespeare
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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
— Edgar Degas
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A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all…
— Charles Boyer
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
— Jeremiah
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To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable…
— Guy Debord
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless…
— Henry A. Wallace
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I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let…
— Betty Smith
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Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
— Joseph Conrad
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But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be.…
— Ellen Schreiber
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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,…
— Italo Calvino
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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
— William Blake
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And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to…
— Eric Ludy
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You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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