Deceit Quotes

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who empl...

Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things...

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and e...

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their ho...

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what ...

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tai...

Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion ...

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the peop...

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies ...

I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere ...

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colo...

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if ...

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, trul...

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite natura...

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the...

A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with kn...

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-co...

Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. ...

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stori...

But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert...

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

From compromise to deceit is a small step.