Quotes and Sayings About Deceit

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Lying #Deceit #Looks

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
-- Aeschylus

#Deceit #Causes #Holy

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
-- Aeschylus

#Quality #Female #Deceit

Appearances often are deceiving.
-- Aesop

#Lying #Deceit #Appearance

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
-- Ahmed Abu Khattala

#Lying #Government #Deceit

Lukashenko grabbed victory through force and lies.
-- Alaksandar Milinkievic

#Lying #Victory #Deceit

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
-- Alexander Pope

#Lying #Theatre #Deceit

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
-- Alexander Pope

#Darkness #Deceit #Veils

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

#Truth #Lying #Deceit

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Lying #Sacrifice #Deceit

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
-- Aristophanes

#Deceit #Get Money #Deceived

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Lying #Deceit #True Lies

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Self #Deceit #Deceiving

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

#Deceit #Creation #Lord

I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.
-- Avery Johnson

#Lying #Deceit #Want

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
-- Barack Obama

#Hands #Deceit #Fists

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
-- Ben Hecht

#Lying #Desire #Deceit

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies.
-- Benjamin Bratt

#Lying #Thinking #Deceit

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

#Abortion #Deceit #Lines

If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.
-- Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

#Spiritual #Feet #Deceit

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
-- Bill Bradley

#Lying #Thinking #Deceit

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

#Remembrance #Deceit #World

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Deceit #Way #Dupes

Never try to snow a snowman.
-- Bo Belinsky

#Snow #Trying #Deceit

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
-- Boyle Roche

#Lying #Deceit #Half

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
-- Bret Harte

#Dark #Wish #Deceit

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Lying #Hype #Deceit

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Liars #Lying #Deceit

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.
-- Charles Babbage

#Wish #Deceit #Records

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
-- Charles Dickens

#Lying #Deceit #Literature