Quotes About Deceit

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

We don't want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.

Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you'd expect of a psychopath.

In an age when politicians are judged first of all on personality, when the public assumes all of them to be deceitful, and when it's easier and much more pleasurable to laugh about a political issue than to think about it, Johnson's apparent self-deprecating honesty and lack of concern for his own dignity were bound to make him a hit.

People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

It is not in truth very difficult to befool a man who does half the fooling himself.

I'd become aware of human complexity--that's a kinder word than "deceit.

The price of deceit is to feel like a cockroach. She listens as he recounts the newspaper stories of the raids, and of Arikkad's death while trying to escape. "The Naxalite

The price of deceit is to feel like a cockroach.

Le Jeuden, des Dreugen, Au Frauden

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Beware of the man of two faces.

Street angel, house devil.

There lies often falsehood beneath a pretty skin.

Equality in all things, the synonym of equity, this is anarchism in very deed. It is not only against the abstract trinity of law, religion, and authority that we declare war. By becoming anarchists we declare war against all this wave of deceit, cunning, exploitation, depravity, vice—in a word, inequality—which they have poured into all our hearts. We declare war against their way of acting, against their way of thinking.

to justify their own spilling of ink they spell the day as night

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.

Bobby Roode is the kind of guy who will stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)