(115 quotes found)
“When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat yet, fool'd by hope, men favour the deceit”
John Dryden
“When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.”
“And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after its stability and you should taste evil because you turned away from Allah's way and grievous punishment be your (lot).”
quran
“The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.”
Bible
“He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; / When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.”
“O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more”
William Cowper
“It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.”
John Scott
“betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.”
Bill Cosby
“The love of Maya makes this mind dance, and the deceit within makes people suffer in pain.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.”
Lucien Bouchard
