Top 41 Quotes About Deceit And Deception
#1. The evidence is overwhelming that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have engaged in deceit and deception over going to war in Iraq. This is an impeachable offense.
John Dean
#2. As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.
Criss Jami
#3. Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
Baltasar Gracian
#4. As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.
Dean Koontz
#5. Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Criss Jami
#6. Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
Ben Macintyre
#7. Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#8. Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
Scott Kahn
#9. 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
#10. Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that which went unspoken.
T. Scott McLeod
#11. 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
#12. Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!
T.F. Hodge
#13. There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
George Eliot
#14. Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
Aaron Hill
#15. If you don't want to deceive yourself in this new year, don't be a miracle chaser
Sunday Adelaja
#16. And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.
John F. Kerry
#17. Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.
Sissela Bok
#18. To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. 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
#20. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.
Christopher Hampton
#21. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.
Osamu Dazai
#22. True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#23. It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
Jocelyn Murray
#24. We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
R. Scott Bakker
#25. Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
Maria Montessori
#26. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
It is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other.
~Empress Irene~
Kris Waldherr
#27. People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
#28. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#30. Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.
Mao Zedong
#31. I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it's a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#33. Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.
Roberto Hogue
#34. 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
#35. This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
Dave Eggers
#36. Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).
Mary Shelley
#37. The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
Margery Allingham
#38. When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Euripides
#39. Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
#40. Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.
Criss Jami
#41. An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.
Ezra Taft Benson
