Quotes About Deceit

All that glitters is not hovery.

Communism is a disease of the intellect. It promises universal brotherhood, peace and prosperity to lure humanitarians and idealists into participating in a conspiracy which gains power through deceit and deception and stays in power with brute force.

We carefully conceal our abundant vices from others—and we pretend they're small and insignificant. In fact, we so delude ourselves that we sometimes embrace our vices as virtues. When

If you're getting fucked, then you're getting fucked. But if you're getting fucked by someone who's smiling, then you're really getting fucked.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

It takes time and deeds, and this involves trust, it involves making ourselves vulnerable to each other…to become sitting ducks for each other----and if one of the ducks is shamming, then the sincere duck will pay in pain---but the deceitful duck, I feel, will be the loser.

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

El hombre sólo es rico en hipocresía.

A crook remains always sickly infatuated to the love or likes for own looks; and the people who have doubt on this outlook can look into the lifestyle of the crafty people from the genuine history book.

A person who has a nature of crafty & cunning fox gets in the same proportion the people around oneself as friends or folks with each of them talks sweet often before that guy, but behind does all backbiting or bitching about him/her

A relatively reliable person in a world full of deceitful people does not even change his product or even own profile picture so easily so forget about frequently altering friends.

Sycophants are like serpents because a person who keeps them is definitely bitten by them one day.

Sycophants are like termites that eat from inside even a tree bearing fruits & flowers and they are often in the guise of supporters and followers only.

The wicked have no stability, for they do not remain in consistency with themselves; they continue friends only for a short time, rejoicing in each other?s wickedness.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

A man's love decreases with the revelation of defects; a woman's does not. A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults. There is something divine in that kind of love, because God loves us in spite of all defects, our failings, and our sins. A man may stand for the Justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

His appraisal of the state of the world was a bleak one: "No one speaks truthfully anymore," he writes. "Everything is deceit, lies, cunning, theft, sodomy, wickedness, with no fear of God or concern for the world. O miserable Christians, worse than beasts, where are you headed?

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Bütün yak?nla?malar,bütün birle?meler yalanc?d?r.?nsanlar ancak muayyen bir hadde kadar birbirlerine sokulabilirler,üst taraf?n? uydururlar; ve günün birinde hatalar?n? anlay?nca,yeislerinden her ?eyi b?rak?p kaçarlar.

What bothered me was having no other choice but to work with people who were always drunk and hungry for meat. They'd give such looks ... I wouldn't call it animalistic because that in itself would still be natural ... This was something beneath that ... a bestiality fed by cruelty, hypocrisy, and deceit ...