Deceit Quotes - Page 17

• Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Evil, Doe

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• Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love, Loyalty, Lying

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• I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.

  Russell Means

  Country, Character, Government

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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Age

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• Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Lying, Eye

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 75

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• Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Honesty, Lying, Self

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Lying, President

  "Bush defends Iraq war in face of WMD findings", www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

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• It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

  John Updike

  Lying, Lateness, Firsts

  "Couples". Book by John Updike, 1968.

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• A pious fraud.
  [Lat., Pia fraus.]

  Ovid

  Fraud, Pious

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• Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

  John Rosemond

  Communication, Four, Micromanaging

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• What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

  Georges Bernanos

  Mother, War, Lying

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.154, Da Capo Press

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• We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

  Cary Elwes

  Lying, Men, Action

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• The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Stars, Lying

  'Comus' (1637) l. 195

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• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Lying, Struggle, Trying

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 19, 2005.

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• In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Mistrust

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• Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

  Janice Rogers Brown

  Family, War, Moving

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• Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

  Michael Gilbert

  Lying, Sometimes, I've Learned

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• Real happiness lies within you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Lying, Within You

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Oct 14, 2016

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• Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

  Emily Dickinson

  Lying, Congratulations, Dazzle

  c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).

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• All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty, especially farmers, working-class people, and the very poor.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Class, People, Suffering

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• No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Lying, Harsh, Comfortable

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Honesty, Lying, Littles

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not through showmanship. They who practice deceit, attain not Deliverance in the Hereafter. They do so only to accomplish the affairs of the world and even the kings worship them for their appearance! But through showmanship, God is attained not, howsoever one searches. He who subdues his mind alone recognizes the Transcendent God.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Religious, Kings, Men

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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