Deceitful Quotes

• 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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• 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, Deceit, Definitions

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• How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Anticipation, End Of Life

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• The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

  John Tillotson

  Art, Hype, Deception

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Appearance

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  Noel Coward

  Honesty, Lying, People

  Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Selfish, Jealous

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• Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

  Aesop

  Kissing, Faithful, Enemy

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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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• In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Anger, People

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• Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Cities, Desire

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.

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• The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

  Jeremiah

  Heart, Wicked, Deceit

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• Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Cities, Perspective

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

  Winston Churchill

  Praise, Censure

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• Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

  Piers Corbyn

  Years, Hype, Deceit

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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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• Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

  Neil LaBute

  Hype, Deceit, Hateful

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• Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Hype, Tragedy, Deceit

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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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, Deceit, World

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

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• I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Anger, Wrath

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more

  Joseph Conrad

  Feelings, Youth, Remember

  "Youth" (1902)

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• I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

  Frederick Douglass

  Land, Looks, Calling

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.132, Penguin

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• Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Journey, Men

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