Deceit Quotes - Page 19

• Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Naked, Body, Spirit

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1987). “Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction”

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• The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Tim LaHaye (2010). “Revelation Unveiled”, p.418, Zondervan

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• The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

  James Montgomery Bailey

  World, Corruption

  James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.260

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• Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Self, Deception

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• One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Lying, Should Have, True Lies

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.cbsnews.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Mean, Thinking, Irony

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• She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Men, Class

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

  Anne Rice

  Disappointment, Children, Lying

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.286, Ballantine Books

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• I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Moving, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.123, Vintage

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• See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

  George W. Bush

  Tyrants, Dumb, Lines

  George W. Bush's speech at the Social Security Conversation in Greece, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 24, 2005.

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• It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.

  John Negroponte

  Mistake, Lying, Editing

  "U.N. officials react to Blix briefing". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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• He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Soldier, Stabbing

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.203, BookCaps Study Guides

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• These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

  Richard Perle

  Lying

  "Questions surround WMD hunt" by David Ensor, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.

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• We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

  Jalal Talabani

  Children, War, Lying

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• So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned on inciting the American public against Iraq and pushing them to accept the American administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli, as if it were the solution or the necessary rescue that would allow American citizens to live in security and stability, after what they had gone through in the September 11 attacks.

  Naji Sabri

  Lying, Iraq, Long

  "Saddam's letter to U.N. says U.S. wants oil". www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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• None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

  Louis MacNeice

  Wall, Lying, Heart

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.147, Faber & Faber

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• There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye---when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save---respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. Do ye agree?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Thinking, Giving

  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.217, Dell

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• My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

  Edward Dyer

  Perfect, Ease, Wealth

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Honor

  "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2006.

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Ambition, Knowledge

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."

  William Shenstone

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

  Pythagoras

  Grief, Eye, Two

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• Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Lying, Dishonesty, Dishonesty And Lying

  "The Fantasy of King Sihanouk" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Rip, Lying

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