Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Tom Leighton

There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.

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.

Fanny Brice

Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

Italo Calvino

There is no language without deceit.

Francois Rabelais

Machination is worth more than force.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Ronald Reagan

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

Dan Hall

I've got to confess, I've always had this distrust for the whole industry. Maybe it's horror stories about people with garages full of Amway products.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Richard Shelby

It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government,

Tom Daschle

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Amelia Barr

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Don Vincent

They have to really justify it well, I don't know what their logic is or anything.

Don Vincent

They have to really justify it well, ... I don't know what their logic is or anything.

Judy Chicago

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

Dottie Pepper

At this point, she is an untapped talent because there is no track record. No qualifying school, no futures tour. There is a lot that has to be seen. She is going to have to win to justify it. There are a lot of questions that need answers.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Jenna Marbles

I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.