Top 278 Deceit Quotes & Sayings

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

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

There is no language without deceit.

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

I would like to say that to mislead the youth is not only deceit but a crime.

?ur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know.

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

How people see the world is often a reflection of how they see themselves. If they think that the world is just a cesspool of lies and deceit, then they themselves may be full of lies and deceit. Watch out for those people who are always telling you just how corrupt the rest of the world is. As the saying goes, 'It takes one to know one.'

I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.