Top 121 Deceitful Quotes & Sayings
Explore popular Deceitful quotes.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
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.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
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.
Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.
I did not make my disclosure about the deceitful manipulation of the U.N. before the invasion of Iraq began in order to garner fame or fortune.
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
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.
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.
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.
Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.
?"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
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.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
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.
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.
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
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.
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.
And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
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.
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct
In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
