Quotes of: Deceit Keyword

It was not for me, after these last seventy-two hours, to reject as too outlandish the possibility that the situation for him here had driven George crazy. Yet I did reject it. It was just too insipid a conclusion. Not everybody was cray. Resolute is...

Operation Shylock: A Confession

Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de ...

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

…deceitful!” she decided with a little bounce of fury that briefly ballooned the silk of her trousers. “There! You deceitful …” “Gillia…” “…misleading, dishonest, insincere…” “Those are all the same words, Gill—” “Ooh!...

V.S. Carnes

say what you mean and mean what you say

Love and Deceit

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

The Sun Watches the Sun

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

Mercedes McCambridge

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Jean Anouilh

In the abundance of men's incredible promises, there's an equal abundance of deceit

Constance Chuks Friday

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Edward Kennedy

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

John Tillotson

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Henry Adams

It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.

Dennis E. Adonis

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Noam Chomsky

...Her boyfriend gives her a Mercedes, [her friends] say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But her boyfriend gives her a diamond, they say, 'Oh, he's serious.' It's not just the gift of love-it's the gift of commitment. She's not jumping up and down because she go...

The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Lucien Bouchard

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Ted Nugent

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

The Kiss. It seemed like more than a kiss. It felt more like alchemy.

Bittersweet Deceit

he looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.

Light in August

I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’t trying to be deceitful

Prince of Wolves