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Quotes About Deceit

Gentler than the Lanisters is dryer than the sea.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.
~ George R.R. Martin
Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.
~ George R.R. Martin
Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.
~ George R.R. Martin
Joffrey is in my prayers as well," said Margaery. "I loved him dearly, though I never had the chance to know him." Liar, the queen thought. If you had loved him even for an instant, you would not have been in such unseemly haste to wed his brother. His crown was all you ever wanted. For
~ George R.R. Martin
Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.
~ George Santayana
Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.
~ George Edward Herbert
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
~ John Donne
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
~ Douglas Jerrold
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
~ Bible
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
~ William Faulkner
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
~ Chanakya
Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
~ Burton Malkiel
to nic nie znaczy, do diab?a, w ko?cówce naszego wspania?ego XX wieku, wieku tyranii i rozpasanej demokracji, g?upkowatej ?wi?to?ci i genialnego ?ajdactwa, skapcania?ej sztuki i rozwydrzonej grafomanii.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
There is less in this than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.
~ Kathleen Troia McFarland
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
~ Anais Nin
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
~ Malachy McCourt
The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
~ Gorgias
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.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
~ Will Durant
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.
~ C.P. Snow
You will not defile the purity of love with dishonesty or deceit, for this is adulterous. I promise you, when you have found God, you shall not commit this adultery.
~ Neale Donald Walsch