Deceit Quotes

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. View quote
Noël Coward
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. View quote
William Cowper
Imagination travels faster than sight. Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet. View quote
William Blake
The look of love alarms Because tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lovers hire. View quote
William Blake
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. View quote
Walter Scott
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. View quote
Neil LaBute
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. View quote
James Madison
There is no language without deceit. View quote
Italo Calvino
Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you - slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come. (George F. Kennan)
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. View quote
John Dryden
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd 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 possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. View quote
John Dryden
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
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. View quote
Henry A. Wallace
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. View quote
Henry A. Wallace
When once-which every body must be-you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion-caution-and sometimes causelessly. View quote
Frances Burney
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times. View quote
Edward Coke
Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. View quote
Aristophanes
To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that. (Simon Soloveychik)
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. View quote
Filipp Golikov
In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society. View quote
Najib Razak
Anything is better than lies and deceit! View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci