Deceit Quotes - Page 11

• After months of lies, the president [Bill Clinton] has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reason. The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment.

  Dick Armey

  Lying, Believe, People

  "Impeachment Debate Postponed / House Republicans want to reschedule vote no later than Monday" by Marc Sandalow, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.

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• I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Memories, Lying, Worst Enemy

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.221, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

  John Berger

  Lying, Media, Political

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• For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Way, Facts

  "Notes from underground, White nights, The dream of a ridiculous man, and selections from The House of the dead". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1961.

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• Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Lying, Sheep, Years

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  E. W. Howe

  Lying, Printed, Detest

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• Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cancer, Lying, Soul

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Deception, Example

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Love You, Heart

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• There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Self, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.525, Delphi Classics

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• It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

  Justin Cronin

  Lying, Soon Enough, Stories

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.129, Ballantine Books

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• Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Lying, People, Taste

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.1, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Deception, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Thinking, Secret

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.666, Dell

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• In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Mirrors

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• Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

  Brandon Mull

  Lying, Sometimes, Believable

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Together, Being Lied

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.227, Penguin

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• You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Dark, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Lying, Fiction, Facts

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Writer and the World: Essays”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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• Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Lying, Hype, Deceived Us

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• Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Watches, Facts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Fun, Self, Play

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• If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

  Neal Shusterman

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Appearance, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Heart, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing

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