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Tag Name "Deceit" (171)

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Deceit is the false road to happiness and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
Aaron Hill
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
Baltasar Gracian
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Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.
Lisa Vidal
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Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.
John Andreas Widtsoe
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Evelyn Waugh
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Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
Albert Pike
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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
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Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!
Anton Szandor LaVey
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Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.
Arthur Jones
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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
Athanasius of Alexandria
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The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.
Gary Yourofsky
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
Baltasar Gracian
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
George Eliot
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
Bernard Nathanson
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War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.
George W. Bush
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
Bill Vaughan
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Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.
Greg Abbott
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I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
Bob Dylan
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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
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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
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