Deceit Quotes
Deceit Quote of the day
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.
The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.
