Deceit Quotes - Page 6

• Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

  Demosthenes

  Self, Easier

  Demosthenes (2015). “Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Two, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders." He touched her lightly with two fingers. "Some liars blink. Some stare. Some look away. Some lick their lips. Many coer their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit. Other signs may be more subtle, but they are always there. A false smile and a true one may look alike, but they are as different as dusk from dawn.

  George R. R. Martin

  Liars, Lying, Eye

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2709, Bantam

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• The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Vices, Complaining

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• Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

  Wes Fesler

  Flames, Heat, Distrust

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• It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

  Sophie Arnould

  Miserable, Deceived, Being Deceived

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• Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Sunshine, Faces

  Joseph Addison (1808). “Cato. A Tragedy. London 1808”, p.17

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• We are our own aptest deceiver.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Deceiver

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• Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

  James Anthony Froude

  Evil, World, Spirit

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.343

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• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  Ted Nugent

  Government, Abuse, Corruption

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• Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

  Bret Harte

  Dark, Wish, Peculiar

  'The Heathen Chinee: Plain Language from Truthful James' (1870)

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• Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

  Honore de Balzac

  Loss, Men, Choices

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• We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Self, Deceiving, Delicate

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• Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Musical, Made

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• Machination is worth more than force.

  Francois Rabelais

  Force

  "Pantagruel" by François Rabelais, ch. XXVII, 1532.

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• I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Party, Deceiving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sex, Revenge, War

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• The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Our Actions, Motive

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.62

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• The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ravens, Giving, Lambs

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1473, Barbour Publishing

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• The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

  Francois de la Noue

  Silly, Men, Complaining

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  As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Artist, Simplicity

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• Appearances often are deceiving.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Lying, Appearance

  "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing". Fable by Aesop published in "Aesop's Fables For Children", 1919.

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• Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Comfort, May, Helping

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Game," Chapter: "Cheat," p. 88), 1999.

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• Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Trying, Deceiving, Cunning

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