Deceit Quotes - Page 5

The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here.

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

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

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

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

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

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

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.