Deceitfulness Quotes

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

A labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking evil old man.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness, his inferiors take advantage of his abilities.

I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

…his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy…. he is a contemptible hypocrite.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.