Deceit Quotes

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

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.

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

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

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

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

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

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

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

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

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.

You know what lies are for.

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

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and 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.

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

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

The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

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

They mislead the unwitting masses.

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.