Deceit Quote by John Andreas Widtsoe

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

— Maria Montessori

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

— Bible

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

— Aaron Hill

Deceit doesn't effect the mind, it kills the heart

— Wes Campton

There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

— KM II

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

— Noam Chomsky

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

— Jane Austen

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

— Pierre Corneille

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

— Dejan Stojanovic

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

— William Faulkner