Quotes About Deceit

CIA types are so into deceit, deception, double and triple crosses, paranoia, and bullshit, that you never knew what they knew

She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

A society convulsed by disorder and chaos, as Voegelin pointed out, elevates and even celebrates the morally degenerate, those who are cunning, manipulative, deceitful, and violent.

The origin of superstition above given affords us a clear reason for the fact, that it comes to all men naturally, though some refer its rise to a dim notion of God, universal to mankind, and also tends to show, that it is no less inconsistent and variable than other mental hallucinations and emotional impulses, and further that it can only be maintained by hope, hatred, anger, and deceit; since it springs, not from reason, but solely from the more powerful phases of emotion.

L'italiano è infido, bugiardo, vile, traditore, si trova più a suo agio con il pugnale che con la spade, meglio con il veleno che col farmaco, viscido nella trattativa, coerente solo nel cambiar bandiera a ogni vento.

The malicious have a dark happiness.

perfidious.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.

There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women.

A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Nothing like truth to leaven a good lie.

Horses are far worse than men for treachery...

The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind.

Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.