#deceit

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#game #nature #petty #quality #spirits

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

— Noel Coward

#discouraging #few #honesty #how #many

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. ↗

— John Dryden

#consider #deceit #favor #fooled #hope

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#becomes #deceit #during #revolutionary #telling

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #times

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#dupe #each #general #general rule #love

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#democracy #integrity #lifeblood #poison #veins

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. ↗

— John Scott

#atrocity #capable #deceit #immense #love

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it? ↗

— Clare Short

#afterwards #angry #away #chaos #continuous

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#christ #colony #deceitful #further #hateful