Quotes About Deceit

His charm and cheer blinded you, made you deaf to your own thoughts, until all you could do was nod and smile, while the frost came down, killing you where you stood.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Our moral code is constantly evolving; it's impacted by the betrayers, masters of deceit, and the pseudo-truth tellers among us, even those we love.

The world is deceived by nothing. It must be given something by which to seem deceived.

Yet another way of avoiding the game would be perfect honesty and straightforwardness, since one of the main techniques of those who seek power is deceit and secrecy. But being perfectly honest will inevitably hurt and insult a great many people, some of whom will choose to injure you in return.

What is offered for free is dangerous--it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit.

Finally, those who claim to be nonplayers may affect an air of naïveté, to protect them from the accusation that they are after power. Beware again, however, for the appearance of naiveté can be an effective means of deceit

In the end, the only safe place to put a Trojan horse is outside your walls.

The Father of Lies never lays simple plans

Against firelight, he sees the face of the woman / Lean over, and the lips purse sweet as to bestow a kiss, but / This is not true, and the great glob of spit / Hangs there, glittering, before she lets it fall. The spit is what softens like silk the passage of steel / On the fine-grained stone. It whispers.

As George Orwell wrote in his book 1984, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good will it do us then?

Hope is a lying bitch.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

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

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Prof. Gilley declares that my "central lie," my "first and biggest deceit," is to equate the État independant du Congo, the regime King Leopold II of Belgium controlled for 23 years, with colonialism.

is a Naked, and Open day light, that doth not shew the Masques, and Mummeries, and Triumphs of the world, halfe so Stately, and daintily, as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearle, that sheweth best by day: But it will not rise to the price of a Diamond, or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure.

Politics is now synonymous with hypocrisy

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.