Deceit Quotes - Page 12

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

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.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

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

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

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.

We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies.

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

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

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful. I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength 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.

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and lies.