Deceit Quotes - Page 3

• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.486

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• Never try to snow a snowman.

  Bo Belinsky

  Snow, Trying, Snowman

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• The best of women are hypocrites.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Hypocrite

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• Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stars, Light, Darkness

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• Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ease, Guilty, Deceiving

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.147

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• We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

  Samuel Johnson

  Self, Giving, Growth

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.37

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• I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.

  Christopher Hampton

  Lying, Thinking, Deception

  "Dangerous Liaisons". www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

  Robert Southey

  Life, Lying, Practice

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• Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Men, Ashamed, Deceived

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• It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

  Mark Russinovich

  Lying, Taken, Rights

  "Sony gets an earful over CD software / Program to block music piracy prompts privacy, security worries" by Carrie Kirby, www.sfgate.com. November 11, 2005.

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• Nature meant me
  A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove,
  Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Silly

  "All for Love".

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• As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Passion, Assuming

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

  Russ Potts

  Lying, Mean, Denial

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• What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
  As to descry the crafty cunning train,
  By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
  And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
  To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
  And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
  The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

  Edmund Spenser

  Wise, Men, Purpose

  Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.125, Canon Press & Book Service

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• A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Sentimental, Lovers

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• Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lying, Wine, Games

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

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• Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

  Bill Vaughan

  Remembrance, World, This World

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• After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

  Friedrich Muller

  Lying, Pride, Blood

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• The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

  Paul Hirsch

  Movie, Lying, Editing

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• Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

  John Wanamaker

  Lying, Believe, Hype

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• Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Hype, Simplicity

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.432, Booklassic

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• It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Real, Bitterness, Reality

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.438

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• Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

  Pierre Corneille

  Lying, Games, Hype

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• 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

  Hype, Gathering, Resolution

  Remarks by the Vice President to the World Economic Forum, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 24, 2004.

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• I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

  Moshe Sharett

  Our Generation, Israel, Generations

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