Deceit Quotes & Sayings
These deceit quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground. - Baltasar Gracian Y Morales
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty. - George Eliot
The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit. - Periander
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. - Hitopadehsa
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. - Aeschylus
Sincerity is an opening of the heart, found in very few people. What we usually see is merely a cunning deceit to gain another's confidence. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they stand up sluggishly; they do it only to be seen of men and do not remember Allah save a little. [The Women 4.142] - The Koran
The purpose of polite behaviour is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se. - June Jordan