Deceit Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Love, Self, Feelings

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Lying, Dirty, Israel

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• Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

  Edward Coke

  These Days, Fraud, Former

  Sir Edward Coke (1777). “The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law”

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• The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

  Bela Lugosi

  Lying, Ignorance, Mean

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• Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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• The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Lying, Facts, Reason Why

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• Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

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• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

  John Dryden

  Life, Running, Lying

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Dream, Spiritual, Emotional

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• I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Light, Doubt

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “The indispensable Rousseau”, Quartet Books (UK)

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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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• Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Distrust, Justify

  "Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard".

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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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• 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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• In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Mistrust

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• I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

  Erin Brockovich

  Real, Health, Safety

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• Low on his funeral couch he lies!

  Thomas Gray

  Lying, Funeral, Lows

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.63-6.

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• Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

  William Blake

  Christian, Lying, Building Up

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.258, Princeton University Press

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