Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

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!

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.

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

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

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

None are deceived but they that confide.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Real happiness lies within you.

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.

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

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

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

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.

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.]

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

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

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

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

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

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 art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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

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 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 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.