Quotes About Deceit

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet.

O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")

Thou liar of the first magnitude.

I have heard say that diseases of the heart are seen in spots of the tongue, but the hypocrite can show a clear tongue and yet have a foul heart.

The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.

It was a city built on promise, on compromise, on inspiration and empty rhetoric both, on history poorly remembered and easily bent, and once in a while, on good people with the best of intentions who battled against the distrust, misdirection, and deceit that was politics as usual. (Referring to Washington, D.C.)

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit

To be an addict is to be something of a cognitive acrobat. You spread versions of yourself around, giving each person the truth he or she needs—you need, actually—to keep them at one remove. How, then, to reassemble that montage of deceit into a truthful past?

Now I no longer believed that one man or even one group of men were responsible. There were too many connections, too many avenues of villainy. Too many men had too much power and knowledge, but none could be made to answer for their crimes because they hid themselves in endless mazes of deceit and fiction.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.