Deceitful Quotes

Deceitful Quote of the day

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

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

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

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

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

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

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

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

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.