Deceit Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Lying, Men, Silence

  "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers". Book by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881.

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• Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Wish, Records

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.177

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• I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Lying, Hype, Deception

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Lying, Father, Pride

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• To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

  Peter McWilliams

  Dream, Real, Lying

  Peter McWilliams (1994). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Prelude Press

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• The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

  Hal Borland

  Wisdom, Lying, New Beginnings

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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 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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• 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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• Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Wisdom, Integrity

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1”, p.129

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Eye, Daring

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• When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
  Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
  Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay.
  Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

  John Dryden

  Life, Men, Thinking

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2746, Delphi Classics

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