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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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• Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

  Aphra Behn

  Night, Light, Steps

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• By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Ornaments

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.261, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Needs, Reason, Accepted

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

  Richard Dawkins

  Agendas, Suits, Scientist

  "God’s Gift to Kansas" by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2005.

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• But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

  Karl Marx

  Spiritual, Class, Common Sense

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• To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.

  H. L. Mencken

  Average, Ignorant, Belief

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

  Marcel Marceau

  Inspiration, Simple, Pantomime

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• Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

  Russell Jacoby

  Common Sense, Half, World

  Russell Jacoby (1975). “Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing”, Beacon Pr

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• The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.) find its full (or complete) satisfaction in the conventional (or superficial, - "conventionnel", Fr.) and deceitful world, in which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of others ("devant les autres", Fr.), to appear, and hoping to find in society ("mondaine", Fr.) relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity (or vainglory or conceit", Fr).

  African Spir

  Men, Vanity, Trying

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

  Octavio Paz

  House, Future Happiness, Prison

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.283, Grove Press

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• Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, May

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.292

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• What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
  Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman;
  Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman;
  Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
  And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman;
  Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

  Thomas Otway

  War, Women, Years

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.254

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• Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.

  Ron Paul

  Government, People, Suffering

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