Deceit Quotes - Page 4

There is no language without deceit.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Machination is worth more than force.

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

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

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

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

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

The best of women are hypocrites.

To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.