Deceit Quote by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even when they…

— Bill Granger

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

“His life, or at least the latter part of it, was of epic significance.  Yet he was far from perfect.  He could tell lies…

— David Pawson

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“[T]hat his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will ... against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a…

— Somerset Maugham Blanchet

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“The torments of a proud decision, a deep conscience! God, in whom he did not believe, and his truth were overcoming his heart, which…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Since he bore the sin of the murderer and adulterer, he felt the shame of the murderer and adulterer. Though he never lied, he…

— Max Lucado