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Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.
The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.
I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.
I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.