Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

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.

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

If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here.

I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.

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

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

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

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

I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

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

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

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.

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