Deceit Quotes - Page 26

• There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Art, World, Criminality

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Darkness, Despair

  "GOP hopefuls couldn't stop talking about Hillary Clinton at this NRA event" by Erik Schelzig, www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Stupidity, Intellectual, Honor

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Art, Lying

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

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• I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Bible, Wisdom, Flames

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• [Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

  D. H. Lawrence

  America, Literature, Hawthorne

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• Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Distrust, Suspicion

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• In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Deception, Distrust

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• Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Errors, Would Be

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• If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Loyal, Want, Fit

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.603, Stanford University Press

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• To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Lying, Men, Mad

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• So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

  Joe Wright

  Lying, England And America, People

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• The most important to me is, Theo is a good person first and foremost. And I think that has a lot to do with it. He's not deceitful. He's an honest guy, a good guy. There's a lot more to this thing than it being a job for him, being born and raised here, the Red Sox being as important as they are to him. Above all else, Theo understands he's a compromiser. Theo understands that the clubhouse is our home. He doesn't invade that privacy often. When he does, he doesn't make you uncomfortable and that says as much about him as anything.

  Curt Schilling

  Jobs, Lying, Home

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• I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Lying, Cat

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• I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Lying, Mystery, Happened

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.

  Meles Zenawi

  Lying, Views, Garbage

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• The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare

  Eduardo Ermita

  Lying, Hard Work, President

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• Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.

  Ray Charles

  Song, Lying, Struggle

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• If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here.

  Mike Miller

  Lying, People, Looks

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• Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

  Deborah Ager

  Lying, Tired, Lakes

  Deborah Ager, “Summer Nights”

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• Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

  Judith Orloff

  Lying, Energy, Trust Me

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.37, Harmony

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• This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Lying, War, Home

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• Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Pretty Woman, Secret

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, p.3, Random House

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