Deceitful Quotes

90 Deceitful quotes by 79 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. — Jane Austen
Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful. — Melissa Marr
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was… — Orhan Pamuk
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the… — Philippa Gregory
‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial — Marcus Aurelius
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Why are we still born? Why do we die? Why are there villains in this so deceitful world? Look at a waterfall or a winter… — Sorin Cerin
And I retired isolated in my corner of world again, seeking to understand what is not understood and to know what is not known. What… — Sorin Cerin
Then who is the Man that has no Will, or Knowledge? Love! This is the Man, a piece of love from birth to death, a… — Sorin Cerin
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but… — Bible
The mind is totally attached to Maya; the mortal has forgotten his fear of old age and death. Gazing upon his family, he blossoms forth… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Man's eyes are all deceitful,as well as our hearts,could you tell me,what's inside of me??..then,it means no one knows us,only one man — Cath Chatto
Dear Players: Go ahead and play your deceitful little games-Lying and manipulating women to get laid-because that's the only way you can get them interested.… — Unkown
A true witness delivereth souls.but a deceitful witness speaketh lies — Mohlatsane Qelemotse

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