Deceit Quotes

• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Practice, Political, Deception

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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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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• Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Men, Hype, Political

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• We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Eye, Responsibility

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Ignorance, Opposites, Fraud

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• Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Poison, Honey

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• It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Self, Dishonesty

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• It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Deceiving, Bad Man

  "Pro Murena". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Chapter XXX), November 63 BC.

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• The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Art, Hype, Deception

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

  Alexander Pope

  Darkness, Veils, Half

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.312

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• One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

  Baltasar Gracian

  Air, House, Needs

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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• Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Eye, Deception

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.222

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• One may outwit another, but not all the others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May

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• Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Duplicity, Simplicity, World

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• Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Art, Lying

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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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, Reason

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

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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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• Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

  Pericles

  Mean, Show Me, Shows

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

  Jeremiah

  Heart, Wicked, Follow Your Heart

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Party, Race

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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  John Dryden

  Life, Cheating, People

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• It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

  John Scott

  Loyalty, Unique, Hype

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