Quotes About Deceit

There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

It's as easy to utter lies as truth

Ah, well, bad blood somewhere. Mind you, I like the rascal—but he's the kind who would murder his grandmother for a shilling or two quite cheerfully. No moral sense. Odd the way some people seem to be born without it.

A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

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.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

ignoring the whole content and context of St. Faustina's message of Divine Mercy has contributed to the very same deceit.

Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.

Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow)

Her garbage had lied to me.

fraud, by definition, requires deceit, something women are highly evolved at.

However, we must expect lies and deceit, and selfish exploitation of communication to arise whenever the interests of the genes of different individuals diverge. This will include individuals of the same species.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

He has no intention of being misled by her. On the contrary, he laughs to himself that he's deceiving her.

Krishna explains. "When enemies become too numerous and powerful, they should be slain by deceit and stratagems. This was the path formerly trodden by the devas to slay the asuras; and a path trodden by the virtuous may be trodden by all.

In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Horses are far worse than men for treachery.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.