Deceit famous quotes

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Lying #Deceit #Looks

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
-- Aeschylus

#Deceit #Causes #Holy

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
-- Aeschylus

#Quality #Female #Deceit

Appearances often are deceiving.
-- Aesop

#Lying #Deceit #Appearance

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
-- Ahmed Abu Khattala

#Lying #Government #Deceit

Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and lies.
-- Alaksandar Milinkievic

#Lying #Victory #Deceit

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
-- Alexander Pope

#Lying #Theatre #Deceit

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
-- Alexander Pope

#Darkness #Deceit #Veils

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Truth #Lying #Deceit

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Lying #Sacrifice #Deceit

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

#Deceit #Get Money #Deceived

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Lying #Deceit #True Lies

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Self #Deceit #Deceiving

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria

#Deceit #Creation #Lord

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.
-- Avery Johnson

#Lying #Deceit #Want

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
-- Barack Obama

#Hands #Deceit #Fists

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
-- Ben Hecht

#Lying #Desire #Deceit

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.
-- Benjamin Bratt

#Lying #Thinking #Deceit

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Abortion #Deceit #Lines

If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.
-- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

#Spiritual #Feet #Deceit

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
-- Bill Bradley

#Lying #Thinking #Deceit

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Remembrance #Deceit #World

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Deceit #Way #Dupes

Never try to snow a snowman.
-- Bo Belinsky

#Snow #Trying #Deceit

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
-- Boyle Roche

#Lying #Deceit #Half

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
-- Bret Harte

#Dark #Wish #Deceit

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Lying #Hype #Deceit

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Liars #Lying #Deceit

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.
-- Charles Babbage

#Wish #Deceit #Records

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
-- Charles Dickens

#Lying #Deceit #Literature

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.
-- Charles Fort

#Hypnosis #People #Deceit

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.
-- Charlie Pierce

#College #Deceit #Fundamentals

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Men #Musical #Deceit

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

#War #Lying #Deceit

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

#Lying #Deceit #Train

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.
-- Darren Clarke

#Lying #Fighting #Deceit

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

#Lying #People #Deceit

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
-- Dave Eggers

#Lying #Deceit #Exquisite

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Comfort #Deceit #May

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
-- Demosthenes

#Self #Deceit #Easier

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
-- Demosthenes

#Self #Deceit #Affection

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
-- Derrick Jensen

#Lying #Deceit #Way

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
-- Dick Cheney

#Hype #Gathering #Deceit

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.
-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#Lying #Deceit #Today

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.
-- Dominique de Villepin

#Hurt #Lying #Deceit

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
-- Dorothy Allison

#Lying #Together #Deceit

What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, And cast her colours dyed deep in grain, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain?
-- Edmund Spenser

#Wise #Men #Deceit

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
-- Edward Coke

#Deceit #These Days #Fraud

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
-- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

#Men #Deceit #Ashamed

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Thinking #Deceit #Misery

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.
-- Emilio Estefan

#Lying #People #Deceit

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...
-- Emily Dickinson

#Lying #Congratulations #Deceit

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

#Lying #Weekend #Deceit

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.
-- Francine du Plessix Gray

#Deceit #Naked #Body

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
-- Francois de la Noue

#Silly #Men #Deceit

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Deceit #Distrust #Justify

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Love #Deceit #Mistrust

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Lying #Self #Deceit

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Long #People #Deceit

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
-- Franz Kafka

#Lying #Two #Deceit

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Lying #Deceit #Way

Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.
-- Geno Auriemma

#Lying #Years #Deceit

I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.
-- George Best

#Mistake #Lying #Deceit

Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.
-- George F. Kennan

#Clever #Russia #Deceit

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
-- George Orwell

#Lying #Objectivity #Deceit

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Lying #Believe #Deceit

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.
-- George Seldes

#Heart #Media #Deceit

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
-- George W. Bush

#Tyrants #Dumb #Deceit

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

#Lying #Long #Deceit

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.
-- Gil Courtemanche

#Powerful #Thinking #Deceit

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers
-- Greg Abbott

#Secret #Deceit #Daggers

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian
-- Guru Nanak

#Lying #Meat #Deceit

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
-- Guy Debord

#Hype #Deceit #World

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
-- H. Rap Brown

#Lying #Progress #Deceit

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.
-- Henry A. Wallace

#Hype #Deceit #Definitions

They mislead the unwitting masses.
-- Huang Huahua

#Lying #Deceit #Mass

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.
-- Hugh Latimer

#Enemy #Deceit #Bouquets

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals
-- Ian Paisley

#Lying #Bridges #Deceit

There is no language without deceit.
-- Italo Calvino

#Deceit #Language

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.
-- James Montgomery Bailey

#Deceit #World #Corruption

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

#Humility #Hype #Deceit

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

#Mean #Thinking #Deceit

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

#Tragedy #Deceit #Reason

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Car #Deceit #Deceiving

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick
-- Jeanne Birdsall

#Selfish #Deceit #Tiny

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#War #Patriotic #Deceit

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

#Lying #Deceit #Made

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

#Lying #Deceit #Mystery

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

#Lying #Deceit #Facts

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Lying #Self #Deceit

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.
-- John Andreas Widtsoe

#Honesty #Deceit #Prudent

Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.
-- John Rosemond

#Communication #Deceit #Four

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
-- John Tillotson

#Art #Hype #Deceit

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
-- John Updike

#Lying #Firsts #Deceit

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.
-- Jonathan Mayhew

#Lying #Deceit #Would Be

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.
-- Jose Gonzalez

#Lying #Deceit #Nowhere To Go

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

#Women #Garden #Deceit

We have made the Reich by propaganda
-- Joseph Goebbels

#Deceit #Propaganda #Made

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
-- Josh Billings

#Deceit #Would Be #Problem

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

#Lying #Energy #Deceit