One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
Never try to snow a snowman.
In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.
Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful,. . . I think Rupert is really adept at comedy I think that's where his strength lies.
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.
Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness. . . . Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.
Satan. . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.