Deceit Quotes - Page 11

• Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

  Carlo Goldoni

  Wish, Use, Pretext

  "La Villeggiatura", I, 12, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 182-83, 1922.

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• When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

  Eliza Dushku

  Lying, Years, Nuts

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• The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Clouds, Political, World

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.131, South End Press

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• Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

  Fanny Kemble

  Lying, Believe, Blessed

  Fanny Kemble (1844). “Poems”, p.111

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• Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Lying, Oil, Cynical

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• With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Yellow, Meditation

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• The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Reality, People, Owing

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• The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Pain, Eye, Heart

  Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Language of Threads: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt

  Mark Rydell

  Art, Drama, Lying

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• They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening

  George Orwell

  Reality, Tyrants, Events

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lying, Reality, Anomalies

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• Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Lying, Sacrifice

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Media, Law, Pro Life

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• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Lying, Believe

  'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4

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• War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

  George W. Bush

  War, Peaceful, September 11

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Lying, Team

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• What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Please Me, True Or False

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.58

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• That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies.

  Floyd Abrams

  Lying, Mean, Views

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• In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it; where the f**k were these Democrats who said, 'We were misled'? That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy: 'We were misled.' F**k you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.

  George Clooney

  Crazy, Lying, Iraq

  "I've learned how to fight". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2006.

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• He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.

  Craig Biggio

  Real, Lying, Hands

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• It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

  John Milton

  Children, Lying, Winter

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

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• If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lying, Would Be, Flavor

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 10, 1799.

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• Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able

  Bobby Miller

  Religious, Lying, Laughing

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