Deceit Quotes

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

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

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

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

The best of women are hypocrites.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

Real happiness lies within you.