Deceitful Nature Quotes

[Characterizing Richard M. Nixon:] ... not a man of quality and depth.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

John Adams is a repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor…. The Adams administration is a continual tempest of malignant passions.

I'm candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

In no nook or corner of his head or heart is there the slightest sense of truth or justice.... Morally speaking, his mind must be a howling wilderness.

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

These Quakers are in general a sly artful People, not altogether destitute, as I conceive, of worldly Views in their religious Profession.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

I could not have known Colin Campbell would turn out to be the debased, cruel monster he turned out to be.

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'

Cersei in 'Game of Thrones' is quite solid and stiff.

I'm a villain at heart. I'm a born villain.

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.