Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

Karen Peters

It shows that while he can be charming, there's deception there.

Carlos Castaneda

it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.

Mary Howitt

Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.

Margery Allingham

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

Publilius Syrus

When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]

Publilius Syrus

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Teju Cole

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Seth

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

Ronan Farrow

You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

Amy Smith

And I married into goats when I married him!

Stephen Black

Slaughtering goats in a subdivision is not appropriate, we know that, but a lot of our newcomers don't know that.

James St. James

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

Ben Katchor

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

John Scalzi

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

Peter Murray

Goats wouldn't have seen a tiger from an evolutionary point of view for at least 15 generations but they recognize the smell of the predator.

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.

Llywelyn Jones

It's a great place to be gay online because no one knows who you are, where you live. They only know what you tell them. Online, you can lie. It's very easy to make up a whole different person online because you have a fake name and you can be really secretive and deceitful about it.

Chris Christie

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Benjamin Franklin

None are deceived but they that confide.

Bible Bible

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Mercedes McCambridge

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

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.