(116 quotes found)
“The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.”
Bible
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”
Diane Arbus
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.”
T.S. Eliot
“He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.”
“Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.”
“Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.”
“A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.”
Charles Boyer
“Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!”
William Shakespeare
“So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great”
Benjamin Franklin
