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I have tolerated the deceitful and the malicious for long enough. My sword shall now answer them.
— Steven Erikson
BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
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
Do not be deceitful.
Do not be disdainful.
Do not be distrustful.
Do not be disgraceful.
Do not be disrespectful. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not be disdainful.
Do not be distrustful.
Do not be disgraceful.
Do not be disrespectful. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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
A kind 'no' from the heart is better than a deceitful 'yes' from the tongue.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Let the inquiring Christian trample under foot every slippery trick of his deceitful heart and insist upon frank and open relations with the Lord.
— A.W. Tozer
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
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
— Adolf Hitler
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
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees
— Dee Remy
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
— Jean Anouilh
There is nothing more deceitful ... than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes and indirect boast.
— Jane Austen
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
— Douglas McCulloh
Nothing is more deceitful,' said Darcy, 'than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,
— Jane Austen
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
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
— John Lyly
Faeries are equally loyal and deceitful.
— Melissa Marr
They unlike their deceitful brothers, uphold the laws of our realm.
— Candace Knoebel
Telling lies and being deceitful takes so much more energy than being honest and sincere.
— Steven Aitchison
It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.
— Dennis E. Adonis
A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.
— Dennis Adonis
The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."
— Pat Robertson
I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things - Addison Goodheart pg. 88
— Dean Koontz
Jack may've been deceitful by blood and a liar by nature, but hot damn holy honeysuckle, he knew how to kiss.
— Kristin Miller
Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That's why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.
— Fanny Brice
There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
— F. Thomson Leighton
Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
She shall be praised.
(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version) — Anonymous
You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.
— Jim Butcher
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
— Giacomo Casanova
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles. — William Blake
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
— Walter Scott
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
— Jane Austen
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe."
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe. — Laini Taylor
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe. — Laini Taylor
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
— Winston Churchill
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
— William C. Brown
A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse.
— George S. Clason
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
— David Hume
1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!
— Anonymous
The woman would be beautiful if she wasn't so deceitful, but snakes ofte3n had the most beautiful design on their scales.
— Kristin Miller
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
— James MacDonald
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.
— Francis Quarles
The mages' stories may be deceitful, but they raise the questions that the majority of people prefer to overlook.
— Andrew Orange
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.
— Richard Dawkins
A truthful enemy is better than a deceitful friend.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Hope is a deceitful cock tease and I don't trust that bitch
— Heather R. Blair
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
Proverbs 31:30: Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
— Matt Chandler
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
An honest sinner is better than a deceitful priest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
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
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
— Gautama Buddha
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 ...
Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.
— Robert Ferrigno
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
— Russell Jacoby
The eye is deceitful as well as the heart.
— Margaret Oliphant