Deceit Quotes - Page 9

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

None are deceived but they that confide.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

You know what lies are for.

For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.