Deceit Quotes - Page 7

• Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Speak, Show Me

  William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.115, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Deception, Sacred

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• Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Honesty, Lying, Character

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• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Double Minded, Duplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Lying, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

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• Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

  Tim Sandlin

  Children, Parent, Easier

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Social Blunders: A Novel”, p.120, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.

  Matt Walsh

  Block, Believe, Trying

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• Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

  Mel Gibson

  Art, Lying, Acting

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• All around me is cowardice and deceit.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Cowardice

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• The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Bible, Christian, Lying

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• All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

  Tina Louise

  Lying, Packs

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• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  H. Rap Brown

  Lying, Progress, Empty

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• You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Sometimes, Deliberate

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Needs, Opinion

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.30, Verso

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• We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.

  Mark Foley

  Mistake, Lying, Kids

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• The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

  Arthur Murray

  Lying, White, Suffering

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• Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity

  Ayad Allawi

  Country, Lying, Iraq

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• Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Justice, Abuse

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• I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Pain, Lying, Empathy

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• I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.

  Avery Johnson

  Lying, Want, Red

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• The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.

  James Walsh

  Betrayal, Lying, Males

  "Ups, downs and working with a legend" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

  Romain Rolland

  Art, Lying, Men

  "John Christopher: Storm and Stress".

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• White lies are ushers to black ones.

  Frederick Marryat

  Lying, White, Black

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• What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

  Jessica Hahn

  Lying, Facts, Bother

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• Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Men, Two

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