Deceit Quotes

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

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

Real happiness lies within you.

O vanity, mislead no more!

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.