Deceit Quotes - Page 21

• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Cheating, Lying, Character

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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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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Purpose

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• In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

  Harry Mulisch

  Mother, Children, War

  Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

  Barack Obama

  Hands, Fists, Sides

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Hug, Dear, Stills

  Nathaniel Cotton (1791). “Various Pieces in Verse and Prose: Many of which Were Never Before Published”, p.166

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• But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Favors, Honest

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.122

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• Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Prudent, Anxious

  John Andreas Widtsoe, Leah Dunford Widtsoe (1938). “The word of wisdom: a modern interpretation”

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

  John Rosemond

  Communication, Four, Micromanaging

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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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• The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Tim LaHaye (2010). “Revelation Unveiled”, p.418, Zondervan

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• Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Naked, Body, Spirit

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1987). “Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction”

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