Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

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

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.

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

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

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

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

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some peanuts and take some beer and tell some lies.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

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

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

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

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

Never try to snow a snowman.

None are deceived but they that confide.

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

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

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

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

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

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

O vanity, mislead no more!

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

People for the most part can smell lies.

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

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Real happiness lies within you.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.