Top 100 Quotes About Deceit
#1. That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn't allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do 'everywhere adjustment'.
Dada Bhagwan
#2. There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.
Rudolf Steiner
#3. In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light so that we can see the way. More important, so that we can look at ourselves, as well as others, and know how similar we are to the herd.
F. Sionil Jose
#4. We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Evelyn Waugh
#5. For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#7. Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.
Graham McNeill
#8. Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
Xenophon
#9. One man may be deceit. Two can be conspiracy. Three is the number I trust.
John Flanagan
#10. To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#11. Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.
Lisa Vidal
#12. One is called a saiyami [those with inner control] when no intent of transgression remains within him. Even during anger-pride-deceit-greed when there is no violent intent; that is called saiyam. A saiyami will go to moksha.
Dada Bhagwan
#13. When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Noam Chomsky
#14. The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
Ted Nugent
#15. Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit.
Idries Shah
#17. With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
Gautama Buddha
#18. All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it.
Dada Bhagwan
#19. The empire took Rhenydd through deceit, murder, and trickery. I don't speak treason. I speak loyalty- loyalty to the monarchy. To sit by and let the empire rape this kingdom and burn this city is treason and, what's more, it's foolhardy cowardice!
Michael J. Sullivan
#20. Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.
Wayne LaPierre
#21. I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know ...
Gretel Ehrlich
#22. Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#24. I nodded yes. Another deceit. I have become a person I do not care for.
Sandra Gulland
#25. 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.
Friedrich Muller
#26. 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
#28. Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.
Geoffrey B. Wilson
#29. Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram
that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.
Lady Gaga
#30. That a mystery must have a resolution is obviously not a requirement of nature. It is, in fact, another deceit of writers
Manu Joseph
#31. I would rather live a life alone, than live a life built on lies, deceit and manipulation".
Linda Simpson
#32. 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.
Joseph Muscat
#33. There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).
Dada Bhagwan
#34. Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
John Dryden
#35. 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
#36. I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.
Moshe Sharett
#37. You say potato; I say potahto ... '
'I say integrity; you say deceit.
Melissa Marr
#38. False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.
Jean De La Bruyere
#39. 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.
Soren Kierkegaard
#40. Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.
George R R Martin
#41. Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#42. God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Aeschylus
#43. The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!
Dada Bhagwan
#44. A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace
#45. Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers
Greg Abbott
#46. Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
Scott Kahn
#47. Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Seneca The Younger
#48. A man cannot conceal joy," I said, though I wasn't sure where it was coming from, "because joy undoes deceit. What I have, I will share, because I must. There is no other choice.
Kristina Meister
#49. From compromise to deceit is a small step.
Billy Graham
#50. 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.
Tim O'Brien
#51. To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. That this silo operated by the same deceit should not be surprising; it was the only way such men knew how to run anything.
Hugh Howey
#53. Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of 'discharge'. But if one does not have 'knowledge of True Self' (realization of the self), then he 'charges' new karmas within.
Dada Bhagwan
#54. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:8 (emphasis added) So
Andy Mason
#55. 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.
Gail Tsukiyama
#56. In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.
Jon Krakauer
#57. What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.
Karleen Koen
#58. We have come to an age where it is very hard to know which is truth and which is deceit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#59. You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
Giacomo Casanova
#60. A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.
Aime Cesaire
#61. Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#62. Regardless of the amount of kashays [anger, pride, deceit, greed] the other person creates, if you win over the kashays with the Gnan [real knowledge] abundance from within, when the kashays have no effect on you from within, then it is considered as winning the world.
Dada Bhagwan
#63. It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noel Coward
Jinx Schwartz
#64. ..fresh friends from completely different worlds faced with the hard shapings of truth and deceit, of right and wrong, and of the equivalent damage when high expectations and low expectations are devastatingly unmet.
Christopher Scotton
#65. The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
Jean Baudrillard
#66. The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.
Henry Van Dyke
#68. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act.
George Orwell
#69. One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
Marvin J. Ashton
#70. A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.
Fulton J. Sheen
#71. There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick Cheney
#72. 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.
Pat Robertson
#73. You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.
Johnny Hunt
#74. One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
Steven Dietz
#75. Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed is considered atikraman [Hurtful karma]. If you do pratikraman [Ask for forgiveness], they will all go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#76. The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
Paul Hirsch
#78. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
#79. So much for deceit, for accepting blame. So much for never telling a soul.
Ellen Hopkins
#80. We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
Chris Christie
#81. Once a war is underway the process of deceit continues with regard to the troops who return with broken bodies and broken minds, especially when the wars were never justified. Admitting that the wars are senseless and in vain is too much to bear.
Ron Paul
#82. I'm a human being, I'm not anyone's mascot! And I am America's conscience. And that's what they don't want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.
Russell Means
#83. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
Libba Bray
#84. Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Francis Bacon
#85. There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
George Eliot
#86. There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,
the one of grief, the other of deceit.
Pythagoras
#87. Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.
Woodrow Wyatt
#88. 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.
Rhys Ifans
#89. 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
#90. How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.
Ayi Kwei Armah
#91. Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
Aeschylus
#92. Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.
Patti Callahan Henry
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.
Dada Bhagwan
#96. Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.
Sissela Bok
#97. The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
Noam Chomsky
#98. The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit.
Noam Shpancer
#99. To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).
Dada Bhagwan
#100. Being lucky is a fool's dream, winning through deceit is a coward's intent, success without caring for others is a complete failure.
Michael Bassey Johnson
