Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

Lake quiets, tired of my 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.

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.

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

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

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

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!

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

Never try to snow a snowman.

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.

None are deceived but they that confide.

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

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

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.

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

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

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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

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.

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

People for the most part can smell lies.

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.

Real happiness lies within you.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

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.

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.

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.

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.]

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

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.

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