Quotes of Guile - somelinesforyou

“ Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ”

- Demosthenes

“ He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; / When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. ”

- Bible

“ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. ”

- Bible

“ This is a case of deceit and sheer fraud. ”

- Steven Bernstein

“ We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ One may outwit another, but not all the others. ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. ”

- John Dryden

“ The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. ”

- Bible

“ I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ”

- Edith Wharton

“ We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. ”

- Bible

“ Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. ”

- George Eliot

“ Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ”

- Noel Coward

“ One is easily fooled by that which one loves. ”

- Moliere

“ If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. ”

- Robert Burton

“ We like to be deceived. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ”

- Pierre Charron

“ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray
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