Quotes About Deceitful

Jeremiah 17 it is written, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, and who can understand it?

Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.

his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

You know, Mrs. Dacres is quite my idea of a murderess—so hard and remorseless." "She's ever so hard—and she's got a wicked temper!

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

Men are vile inconstant toads.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.

Both the Sublime and the Beautiful induce a state of submission that is often combined with the possibility of getting lost. They disorientate and undermine purpose. In one of several erotic sections in the Enquiry Burke describes the experience of looking at a beautiful woman's body: it is, he writes, like a 'deceitful maze, through which the unsteady eye glides giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried'. It

Olive was in the habit of saying "honestly" so often that even a child could see that she must be deceitful. I marveled at her mother's prescience in having named her daughter after a green—with envy—cocktail garnish: hollow and bitter.

Everything that gristles is not gold.

The heart is deceitful above all things, / And it is incurable; / Who can know it?" (17:9).

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

The word "experience" is one of the most deceitful in philosophy. Its adequate discussion would be the topic for a treatise. I can only indicate those elements in my analysis of it which are relevant to the present train of thought.

Love? Love? Love is not safe, my lady silk, love is dangerous. It is deceitfully sweet like wine from a fresh palm tree at dawn. Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need to count on human strength, and when we have to count pennies for food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.

Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.

Peter warns us, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech" (1 PETER 3:10).

It was like having a child forever at your heels - a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child

Politics doesn't mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people.

Methinks thou art a Laggard with the Truth, Marcellus. Thou wert always a deceitful child.

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.