Deceitful Quotes - Page 3

• I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.

  Mike Tyson

  Girlfriend, Sleep, Successful

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Long, Appearance, Deceiving

  George Horace Lorimer (2008). “Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

  Paul Morley

  Enchantment, Moral, Mass

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• Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Deception, Warfare

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• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Avid

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• I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.

  David Livingstone

  Believe, Heart, Attachment

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• No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time  that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

  Martin Luther

  Would Be, Vehemence, Too Much

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• The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Giving, Promise, Despair

  "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.

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• Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Democracy, Theory

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• Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

  Fanny Brice

  Four, Letters, Sometimes

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• Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Dream, Perfect, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• ‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Ungrateful, Arrogant

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Political

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• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Heart, Men

  "Youth" (1902)

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• But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful?Someone kind or cruel?Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself. -Raven Madison

  Ellen Schreiber

  Thinking, Ravens, Loyal

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• And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Tears

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

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• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Liars

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin.

  Eric Ludy

  Selfish, Heart, Names

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God”, p.52, Harvest House Publishers

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• You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

  Philippa Gregory

  Heart, Three, Earth

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hurt, Heart, Two

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber

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• Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.

  Melissa Marr

  Loyal, Faerie

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• People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.

  Damian Thompson

  Attitude, Believe, People

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• You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Dark, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Abortion, Priorities

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• Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Love Is, Sublime

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