Top Deceit Quotes Collection

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Image of Francois Rabelais
Machination is worth more than force.
- Francois Rabelais
Collection: Deceit
Image of James Montgomery Bailey
The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.
- James Montgomery Bailey
Collection: Deceit
Image of Francine du Plessix Gray
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.
- Francine du Plessix Gray
Collection: Deceit
Image of Athanasius of Alexandria
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
- Athanasius of Alexandria
Collection: Deceit
Image of Sophie Arnould
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.
- Sophie Arnould
Collection: Deceit
Image of Nicholas II of Russia
All around me is cowardice and deceit.
- Nicholas II of Russia
Collection: Deceit
Image of Bill Vaughan
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
- Bill Vaughan
Collection: Deceit
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Deceit
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Deceit
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Deceit
Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collection: Deceit
Image of Aeschylus
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
- Aeschylus
Collection: Deceit
Image of Michel de Montaigne
If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
- Michel de Montaigne
Collection: Deceit
Image of Josh Billings
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
- Josh Billings
Collection: Deceit
Image of Italo Calvino
There is no language without deceit.
- Italo Calvino
Collection: Deceit
Image of Edward Coke
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Deceit
Image of Sigmund Freud
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
- Sigmund Freud
Collection: Deceit
Image of Aristophanes
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
- Aristophanes
Collection: Deceit
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are our own aptest deceiver.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Deceit
Image of Benjamin Franklin
None are deceived but they that confide.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Deceit
Image of Samuel Johnson
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Deceit
Image of Samuel Johnson
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Deceit