Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

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

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

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

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

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

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.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

They mislead the unwitting masses.

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

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

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

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

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.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

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

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies.

We have made the Reich by propaganda

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

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

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

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colours dyed deep in grain, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

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.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

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

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

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