Deceit Quotes - Page 2

• It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

  T. S. Eliot

  Beauty, Eye, Firsts

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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Life, Cheating, People

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• Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Government, Media

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Names, Race, Enemy

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• I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Hype, Trouble, My Truth

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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

  Lying, Believe, Hype

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• 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

  Hype, Definitions, Hundred

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• 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

  Hype, World, Natural

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

  William Shakespeare

  Ornaments, World, May

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

  Aaron Hill

  Joy, Deception, Vices

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21

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• Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Mind, Creeps

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• There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Order, Quality, Interest

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

  Seneca the Younger

  Writing, Thinking, Dishonorable

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• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Practice, Different

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• Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

  Aeschylus

  Quality, Female

  Aeschylus (1860). “Aeschylus”, p.234

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• All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Practice, Want

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• Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Summer, Lying, Past

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press

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• He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Believe, Mean, Use

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• Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

  Edward Kennedy

  Integrity, Lying, Hype

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

  William Blake

  Two

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.274, Pearson Education

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• We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Knavery, Add, Purpose

  "Characters", XI, 1688.

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Hype

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Literature, Deceiving

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• But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Noses, Body

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Lying, Half

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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