Quotes About Deceit

Trust is the mother of deceit.

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool's deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics and resources are simply the cloth man weaves to curtain his desires for violence.

Oh, we all are, my young friend! We all deceive. Some of us deceive the whole world, every single fellow creature we meet. Some of us deceive only selected people, wives and lovers, or mothers and fathers. And some of us deceive only ourselves. But none of us is totally honest with everyone all the time, in all matters. Hell, the need to deceive is just one more curse that our sorry species has to bear.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

Dr. Fitch is dead, sir.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived

A few years back, a con to trick

There is no word equivalent to 'cuckold' for women.

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

a 'dodgy politician' and a 'cynical manipulator'. 'He's clever enough to deceive people without them knowing it

It is perfectly monstrous, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight

A cad of the lowest order with a soul as black as his fingernails.

what elaborate lengths we go to fool ourselves)...

If we are to know the abundant provision of God's unlimited resources, we must also understand how Satan works to rob us of that experience. He does so by deceit.

He does so by deceit.

Whether the perpetrator is acting under direct satanic sway, or indirectly in the way that all sin can be ultimately tied to satan's province, a certain degree of deceit and subtlety can be assumed in all sexual abuse.

guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.

Anything which deceives is evil, I believe.

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.