A Quote by Charles Lamb

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
English - Critic
February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

William Blake

THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

William Blake

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

William Blake

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Jane Austen

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

Pat Robertson

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Guy Debord

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Diogenes Laertius

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Henry Adams

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

Giacomo Casanova

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

Malcolm X

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

Francis Quarles

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.