Deceit Quotes - Page 7

• Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Speak, Show Me

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.115, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Honesty, Lying, Character

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• Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Deception, Sacred

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• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Double Minded, Duplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Lying, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

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• Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

  Tim Sandlin

  Children, Parent, Easier

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Social Blunders: A Novel”, p.120, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.

  Matt Walsh

  Block, Believe, Trying

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• Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

  Mel Gibson

  Art, Lying, Acting

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• All around me is cowardice and deceit.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Cowardice

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• The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Bible, Christian, Lying

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• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  H. Rap Brown

  Lying, Progress, Empty

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• All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

  Tina Louise

  Lying, Packs

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• You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Sometimes, Deliberate

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.

  Bryan Robson

  Lying, Games, Focus

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• The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

  Arthur Murray

  Lying, White, Suffering

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• Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

  Boyle Roche

  Lying, Half, Opponents

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• What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

  Joseph Muscat

  Honesty, Lying, Tired

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• Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

  Robert Ballard

  Country, Lying, Rights

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• A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

  Carl Sandburg

  Liars, Lying, Dies

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Real, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.145, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

  James Joyce

  Lying, Done, Wholesale

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.700, Delphi Classics

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• You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Lying, Book, Stones

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.253, Vintage

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• Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Lying, Sacrifice, Knees

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that.

  Lee Freedman

  Nice, Lying, Long

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• I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Pain, Lying, Empathy

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