Top 98 Lies Deceit Quotes
#1. A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.
Dennis Adonis
#4. Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.
Gerhard Schroder
#6. It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
Jocelyn Murray
#7. It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.
Slade Gorton
#9. There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies.
Filipp Golikov
#10. A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
Carl Sandburg
#11. In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.
Dominique De Villepin
#12. Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. I understand what lies hidden beneath beguiling words. I understand the trap beneath extravagant words. I understand the deceit beneath depraved words. And I understand the weariness beneath evasive words.
Mencius
#14. They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.
Jose Gonzalez
#15. I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.
R.M. Ford
#17. And this right here is what love is. It's not hurried and rushed, not lies and deceit. It's tender and giving, honest and trusting. It's the value of actions speaking louder than words.
Tiffany Aleman
#18. The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
Benjamin Franklin
#19. Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe ... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries ... Broken is the promise, Betrayal ... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail ... Follow the god that failed.
James Hetfield
#20. Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde
#21. The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
Criss Jami
#22. No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#23. I so want to believe him, but right now even his touch feels like a lie.
Emily Hainsworth
#24. How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.
Meles Zenawi
#26. When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
William S. Burroughs
#27. It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.
Dennis E. Adonis
#28. The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.
Loretta Lynch
#29. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
Criss Jami
#30. When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;
Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.
John Dryden
#31. 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
#33. So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love ...
Conor Oberst
#35. A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18
Rudyard Kipling
#36. Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.
- Mr. Penderwick
Jeanne Birdsall
#37. Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees
Dee Remy
#38. Having two women - one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life - is clearly difficult for him.
Jennifer Harrison
#39. many marketing methods are filled with lies and deceit, in order to trap the client. God takes all of this very seriously and it prevents Him from hearing our prayers.
Ana Mendez Ferrell
#40. What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
Samuel Johnson
#42. It was the problem with creating a web of lies and deceit. It spiraled out of control until it took on a life of its own, and she was helpless to correct it. In too deep. She'd been trapped by her own solution.
Maya Banks
#43. Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
Victor J. Stenger
#44. Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.
Criss Jami
#45. I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.
Michael Gilbert
#46. Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.
Judith Orloff
#47. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.
Melvin B. Tolson
#48. 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
#49. Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.
Lake
Colleen Hoover
#50. I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.
Darren Clarke
#51. People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.
Dennis E. Adonis
#54. Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
Stephen King
#55. He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie
boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily out of need, but also for the pathological pleasure of killing a god.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#56. You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.
Michael Ondaatje
#57. I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.
Dave Collins
#58. Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#60. Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.
John Steinbeck
#61. I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation".
Linda Simpson
#62. Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#64. Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom.
Criss Jami
#65. Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
Sharon Salzberg
#68. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#69. Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.
Jean Rhys
#70. We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.
Emilio Estefan
#71. These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.
Richard Perle
#72. One of these days when you are spreading your web of lies and deceit. Your tongue shall turn to ashes in your mouth and after the falling out of your teeth.
Crystal Evans
#73. Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the 'religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)', and where kashays are present, lies the 'relative religion'!
Dada Bhagwan
#75. In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.
Criss Jami
#76. You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals
Ian Paisley
#79. Love hadn't existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I'd let all of that crumble.
By letting me in he'd done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game than before.
Cassandra Giovanni
#80. In spite of your lies and deceit, I admit I do love you darling, I really do. But I must leave you anyway, because there is nothing left within you that I can live with.
Tonny K. Brown
#81. I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.
George Best
#82. The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss Jami
#83. Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.
Kristin Cashore
#84. No one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.
Jo Nesbo
#85. If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#87. Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Leo Tolstoy
#88. It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.
Cindy Sheehan
#89. There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.
Julie Eshbaugh
#90. No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
William Congreve
#92. When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you're both lying to you!
Susan Forward
#96. Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.
Criss Jami
#97. We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.
Criss Jami
#98. Some people are like branches. They sway away even with a gentle breeze. Others, the ones like roots, can only be shaken if there is a hurricane.
Stay with latter - they keep the relationship stable. And, do remember not to stir the hurricane by lies or deceit.
#Stability
Saru Singhal
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