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• A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

  Charles Boyer

  Italian, Men, Break Off

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• I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Love You, Deceit

  Charlotte Bronte, Sherri Browning Erwin (2010). “Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic with a Bloodsucking Twist”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Heart, Wicked

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Spiritual, Heart, Pride

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• It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

  Billy Graham

  Horse, Teaching, Heart

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Secret of Happiness”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

  Pat Robertson

  Heart, Men, Wicked

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

  John Lyly

  Beauty, Bait, Hook

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• Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Gone

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “A Doll's House: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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• Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Mean, Giving

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• Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, George S. Claghorn, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1998). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings”

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• The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Tongue

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

  Paul Morley

  Enchantment, Moral, Mass

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• ‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Ungrateful, Arrogant

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

  Fanny Brice

  Four, Letters, Sometimes

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• Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

  Marcel Marceau

  Inspiration, Simple, Pantomime

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• The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

  Muriel Spark

  Men, Deception, Unjust

  Muriel Spark (1995). “The novels of Muriel Spark”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Love Is, Sublime

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• Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Political

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• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Heart, Men

  "Youth" (1902)

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• Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.

  Melissa Marr

  Loyal, Faerie

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• When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hurt, Heart, Two

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber

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• You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

  Philippa Gregory

  Heart, Three, Earth

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.

  Pope John Paul II

  Rights, Abortion, Priorities

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• Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Dream, Perfect, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Dark, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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