Deceit Quotes

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

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

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

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

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

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

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

Nothing is more deceitful, " said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment