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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.
Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.
Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.
Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.
The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry ? chock full of it.
I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.
Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
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.
I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.
I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.
When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
