Quotes About Deceit

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

What would a Frey know of honor? - Sir Davos Seaworth

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

Whatever robe of honor or deceit people may wear, I will still treat everyone with kindness

We can finally start translating the book, " Cate said. "At least, I think we

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

lo lleva pintado en el rostro, la capacidad de estafa y la voluntad de dolo.

Los vínculos del engaño y la desdicha son los más fuertes de todos." Javier Marias - Asi empieza lo malo

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods.

La selva era el mundo de la mentira, de la trampa, y del falso semblante; allí todo era disfraz, estratagema, juego de apariencias, metamorfosis.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Without remorse, you calmly thrust your knife Into each heart that shared its love with you.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Hence perhaps the most important contrast between the forces of evil and the army of the Lamb is the contrast between deceit and truth.

The southern whites would rather have had Negroes who stole, work for them than Negroes who knew, however dimly, the worth of their own humanity. Hence, whites placed a premium upon black deceit; they encouraged irresponsibility; and their rewards were bestowed upon us blacks in the degree that we could make them feel safe and superior.