Deceit Quotes
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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.
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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
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I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.
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White lies are ushers to black ones.
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In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it; where the f**k were these Democrats who said, 'We were misled'? That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy: 'We were misled.' F**k you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.
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The old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
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One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
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I can see the brave face you put on is all a facade. Allow me to tear downs those walls of deceit for you.
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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.
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Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
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The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
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Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.
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I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.
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That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
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I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.
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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.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
