Deceit Quotes
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Deceit Quotes & Sayings
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We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
— Aeschylus
A thing or one's eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!
— Dada Bhagwan
Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.
— Thomas A Kempis
Everyone knows a Wixen when we smell one. You smell the prettiest, a mixture of strawberries, sex and deceit. Dior should bottle it.
— Beverley Price
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
— Jean De La Bruyere
Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.
— John Andreas Widtsoe
We planned for betrayal. They planned for deceit. No one ever thought to plan for harmony.
— Jonathan Hickman
Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.
— Pete Townshend
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
— Scott Kahn
Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.
— John Steinbeck
And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
— Julian Assange
To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).
— Dada Bhagwan
Ambition ... the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Neither the world nor one's actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!
— Dada Bhagwan
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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He's not afraid of anyone, m'lord.""He should be. Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit. — George R R Martin
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
— Benjamin Franklin
Christians are called to set people free from the delusion of the world and from the devil's deceit
— Sunday Adelaja
It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies
— Viktor Yushchenko
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
— Bill Vaughan
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
— Susan Forward
To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.
— Dada Bhagwan
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lover's hire.
— William Blake
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People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
— Dennis E. Adonis
Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
— Alexander Pope
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction ... [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
— Gentry Lee
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
— Criss Jami
Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.
— John Rosemond
A leader should accurately discern deceit.
— Sunday Adelaja
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
— Philip Sidney
When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
— Noam Chomsky
A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
— William Bailey
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
— Robert Burton
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
— John Dryden
Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow.
— Frank Herbert
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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A third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causesfor a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. — R.A. Salvatore
Aikido versus Aikido breeds weakness and self-deceit.
— Toshishiro Obata
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.
— Lisa Vidal
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
— Benjamin Franklin
When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.
— Gerard De Marigny
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Having two women - one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life - is clearly difficult for him.
— Jennifer Harrison
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.
— Michel Houellebecq
Never judge someone by their relatives.
— Charles Martin
I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
— Giacomo Casanova
He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
— William Shakespeare
Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.
— Laura Lee Guhrke
Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
— Samuel Johnson
The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry - chock full of it.
— James Montgomery Bailey
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
— Pierre Corneille
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
— Wes Fesler
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
— Vernon Howard
There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.
— Julie Eshbaugh
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Why am I letting you comfort me? He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.
— Kresley Cole
I'd become aware of human complexitythat's a kinder word than deceit. — Abraham Verghese
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In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.
— Jon Krakauer
All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
— Ahmed Abu Khattala
A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
— Stephen King
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
— T. S. Eliot
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
— Criss Jami
Understanding spirituality means that every day anger, pride, deceit and greed continue to decrease, will not increase.
— Dada Bhagwan
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
— William S. Burroughs
