Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

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 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 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 is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

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

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

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.

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

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.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

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

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

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