Best 481 quotes in «deceit quotes» category

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

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. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

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

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

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 is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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.

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

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

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

Never try to snow a snowman.

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

None are deceived but they that confide.

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

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.

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

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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.

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.

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

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.

People for the most part can smell lies.