Deceit Quotes
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It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
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What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder who would believe that the PSC order isn't in their best interest.
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Which means she to deceive, father or mother?
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
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There is no language without deceit.
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The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
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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.
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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.
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
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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.
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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.
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The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.
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It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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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.
