Deceit Quotes
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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
Virginia Woolf
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Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
William Shakespeare
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
Nikolai II Aleksandrovich
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Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.
Elton Welsby
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The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
Arthur Murray
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These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the weight of their deceit. But as long as they survive we will have trouble winning any political battles.
Wayne Besen
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
Seneca the Younger
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There is no language without deceit.
Italo Calvino
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
William Shakespeare
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Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
Theophrastus
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.
Joseph Glanvill
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It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette