Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

O vanity, mislead no more!

People for the most part can smell lies.

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

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.

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

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

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

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.

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

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Real happiness lies within you.

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.

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black. [Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

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

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

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

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

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

The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death.

The best of women are hypocrites.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

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 institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.

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

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.