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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. -- Henry Adams
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful. -- Neil LaBute
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. -- Jean Anouilh
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. -- Jane Austen
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. -- T. S. Eliot
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. -- Henry A. Wallace
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony. -- Peter Stuyvesant
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree. -- Lee Greenwood
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. -- Guy Debord
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out. -- Piers Corbyn
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven. -- Charles Lamb
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful. -- Winston Churchill
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. -- Jane Austen
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? -- Jeremiah
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. -- Aesop
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. -- Edgar Degas
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. -- Italo Calvino
Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. -- Alison Jackson
A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man. -- Charles Boyer
I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world. -- Charlotte Bronte
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory. -- Pope John Paul II
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments. -- John Calvin
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. -- Frederick Douglass
Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful. -- Melissa Marr
Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid! -- Lord Byron
Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful. -- Fanny Brice
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook. -- John Lyly
The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked." -- Pat Robertson
Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception. -- William C. Brown
A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth. -- Dennis Adonis
Any woman who can't say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful. -- Fanny Brice
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct -- Marcel Marceau
It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth. -- Dennis E. Adonis
Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap. -- Francis Quarles
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. -- David Hume
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. -- Walter Scott
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother. -- Henrik Ibsen
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. -- Douglas McCulloh
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected. -- Malcolm X
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world. -- Russell Jacoby
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. -- Richard Dawkins
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives. -- Giacomo Casanova
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal. -- Adolf Hitler
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. -- Paul Morley
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. -- Francis Quarles
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. -- Gautama Buddha
"?"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial -- Marcus Aurelius
Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees -- Dee Remy
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action. -- F. Thomson Leighton
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true. -- Diogenes Laertius
And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. -- William Blake
Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. -- Jane Austen
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us. -- George Horace Lorimer
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,She shall be praised.(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version) -- Anonymous
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.... -- Plato
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament. -- Benjamin Franklin
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant "Goliath!" and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment. -- Charles Kingsley
Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing. -- Ichabod Spencer
Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead. -- Aphra Behn
I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful vicious devil himself to find the truth. -- Delano Johnson
Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world. -- Kathryn Lasky
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth. -- Philippa Gregory
Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers; vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another. -- Damian Thompson
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. -- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

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