Quotes and Sayings about Deceit
"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Hope, Reason, Tragedy)
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Appearance, Humility, Nothing, Opinion)
"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."
- Lucien Bouchard
(Related: Betrayal, Deceit, Expression)
"As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Deceit)
"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."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Time, Danger, Deceit, Defiance)
"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."
- Piers Corbyn
(Related: Years)
"Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Nature, Quality, Deceit, Spirits, Woman)
"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
- Noel Coward
(Related: People, Honesty, Deceit)
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
- Noel Coward
(Related: People, Honesty, Deceit)
"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
- George Creel
(Related: Corruption, Deceit, Propaganda, Word)
"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."
- Guy Debord
(Related: Nothing, World)
"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."
- John Dryden
(Related: Life, People, Hope, Deceit)
"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Heart, Intention, Man)
"Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree."
- Lee Greenwood
(Related: God, Lie, People, Conscience, May)
"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins."
- Edward Kennedy
(Related: Deceit, Democracy, Integrity, Poison)
"Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful."
- Neil LaBute
(Related: Ability)
"I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation."
- Neil LaBute
(Related: Women, Idea, Being, Deceit, Lying, Manipulation, Will, Woman)
"I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Trouble)
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell
(Related: Truth, Act, Deceit, Will)
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell
(Related: Truth, Act, Deceit)
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell
(Related: Time, Truth, Act, Deceit)
"It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique."
- John Scott
(Related: Love, Deceit, Loyalty)
"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered."
- Moshe Sharett
(Related: Deceit, Facts, Israel, State)
"The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?"
- Clare Short
(Related: War, Chaos, Deceit, Preparation, Suffering, Will)
"We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: Christ, Enemies, Name, Race, Trouble)
"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
(Related: Hope, Bitterness, Deceit, Reality)
"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user."
- John Tillotson
(Related: Art, Cunning, Deceit)
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Money, Power, Deceit, Intolerance, Lust, Nations, Violence)
"There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Money, Power)
"Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Power, Deceit, Man, May, State)
"We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit."
- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: Deceit, Discretion, Temper)
"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."
- Margaret J. Wheatley
(Related: Work, Anger, Life, People, Distrust, Greed, Losing, Needs)