Deceit Quotes - Page 7

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

O vanity, mislead no more!

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

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.

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.