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“Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world”

World Wise Words Creatures Ugly Deceit Cheating Cheat Deceived Hideous Most Deceiver Creature Deceitful People Deceivers

Author:Munia Khan

“Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.”

Children Evil Technology Media Television Internet Morality Devil Radio Newspapers Morals Liar Deceiver Globalisation

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.”

Children Evil Technology Media Television Internet Morality Devil Radio Newspapers Morals Liar Deceiver Globalisation

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Dead people don't haunt you. Your own neglects haunt you. //Why People Feel Miserable”

Love Care Gratitude Parents Miserable Cheat Unfaithful Deceiver Deceive Trickster

Author:Vineet Raj Kapoor

“God is about order and freedom and truth and clarity. Satan is about confusion and bondage.”

Truth Freedom Satan Bondage Religious Faith Deceiver

Book:Killing America: Turning the Tide on the Tsunami of Darkness

Source: Killing America: Turning the Tide on the Tsunami of Darkness

“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”

Death Hope Deception Doom Mislead Slaughter Lead Sleepy Deceiver Deceive Piper Enchant Lull

Book:The Broken Eye

Source: The Broken Eye

“A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.”

Fake Cheat Phony Counterfeit Deceiver Pretender Bastard Trickster Impostor Crook Quack Sham Forger Swindler Racketeer

Author:Anthony Liccione

“Love is the first and most devious deceiver, the most seductive delusion.”

Love Delusion Seductive Deceiver Devious

Author:J. Earp

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.”

Men Heart Jobs Values Perfect Equal Draws Laughter Income Comedian Pens Farmers Nurse Dirt Slides Nursing Monetary Deceiver True Worth

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.”

Left Memories Pleasure Glory Deceiver

Author:Tobsha Learner

“We are our own aptest deceiver.”

Deceit Deceiver

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.”

May Ends Kindness Produce Promise Profit Obstacles Deceit Falsehood Cheat Distrust Convenience Deceiver

Book:The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.”

Men Mean Made Self Certain Names Religious Degrees Constitution Checks Agents Employee Medieval Charlatans Deceiver

Author:Luther Burbank

“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”

Vanity Deceiver

Author:Andrew Davidson

“There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Body Reality Purpose Sin Secret Leader Teacher Heard Honest Communication Argument Selfish Authenticity Freak Brutal Control Freak Deceiver Manipulator

Author:Ted Haggard

“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]”

Pleasure Car Deceit Deceiving Deceiver

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!”

Mind Soul Lying Gay Fairs Mirrors Defects Flattering Countenance Exterior Deceiver Physiognomy

Author:Pierre Corneille

“Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.”

One Thing Drink Drinking Alcoholism Deceiver

Author:Kay Boyle

“Religion, which true policy befriends, Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends, Is by that old deceiver's subtle play Made the chief party in its own decay, And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.”

Men Made Ends Play Religion Felt Party Destiny Policy Chiefs Breasts Subtle Decay Feathers Eagles Deceiver

Author:Katherine Philips

“If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.”

“Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.”

People Actors Memories Acting Poetry Is Deceiver Reciting

Author:Hetty King

“Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.”

“There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.”

Thinking Feels Self Reason Deceiver

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.”

Men Proud Deceived Deceiver Proud Man

Author:Marguerite de Navarre

“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.”

People Way Giving Grows Hours Liberty Presses Cancer Faster Preserves Voting Maxims Arbitrary Bud Resisting Destroyers Encroachment Deceiver

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.”

Ends Matter Hands Wealth Blood Masters Reform Preserves Survivor Trusted Dictator Cunning Whatever It Takes Allergic Deceiver Manipulator

Author:George Ayittey

“The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.”

Should Believe Littles Christian Purpose Evil I Believe Sin Worry Failing Conscience Errors Oneself I Believe In Torture Imperfection Articles Passing Away Deceiver Forgiveness Of Sins

Author:Martin Luther

“It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.”

Knows Men Should Wells Simple Know How Color Yield Hypocrite Deceiver Dupes

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.”

People Ifs Speak Standards Liars Speak The Truth Sanctity High Standards Deceiver

Author:R. C. Sproul

“It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.”

Enough Happens Christian Church Knowing Conversation Intelligent Surface Believer Christian Life Vulnerable Deceiver Uninformed Foyers Intelligent Conversation

Author:David Jeremiah

“I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.”

Ifs Thinking Men Hard Choices Love Is Quality Break Doubt Danger Gains Advantage Punishment Obligation Liars Links Fearful Dread Greedy Rotten Ungrateful Fickle Deceiver

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'”

Men Has Beens Said Cutting Feet Integrity Stones Mere Grieving Jewels Deceiver Man Of Integrity Precious Jewels

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.”

Taoism Suspects Sincere Deceiving Deceiver Trust Others

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.”

Thinking Men Used He Man Politician Vote Tongue Bites Deceitful Deceiver

Author:Malcolm X

“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

Literature Pleasure Philosophical Deceit Deceiving Deceiver

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”

Men Needs Politics Simple Victim Deception Hype Deceiver

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”

Lying Literature Philosophical Deceit Liars Deceiving Deceived Hype Deceiver Being Deceived Deceived Us

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”

Men Funny Differences Deny Fraud Cynical Favourite Deceiver Lying Men Funny Men Tricksters Swindlers Con Artist

Author:H. L. Mencken

“While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.”

Deception Deceiving Deceived Secrecy Hype Deceiver

Book:Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

Source: Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”

Men One Thing Sea Feet Constant Shore Lost Love Sigh Deceiver Inconstancy Blithe

Author:William Shakespeare

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”

Liars Changing Your Life Deceiver

Book:ANNA KARENINA

Source: ANNA KARENINA

“None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.”

Heart Self Faces Lying Turns Easy Lord Worst Wall Pure Worthy Motive Deceit Your Face Not Worthy Deceiver

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”

Lying Easier Deception Liars Permit Permission Deceiver Third Time Lies Truth Telling Lies

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.”

Together Remember Individual Memories Records Events Details Tape Sections Deceiver Patchwork

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”

Thinking Believe Real God Faith Belief Danger Cease Conclusion Believe In God Dread Deceiving Deceiver Grief Observed

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”

Deceiving Deceiver

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word, Gabrielle O'Callaghan," it said softly. "I will protect you." "Right. The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she mocked. How dare it offer its word like it might actually mean something? A muscle leapt in its jaw. "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle. I have been, and am, many things." "Oh, of course, silly me, I left out consummate seducer and ravager of innocence.”

Source: The Immortal Highlander

“If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.”

Ifs Giving Firsts War Christian Left Hours Sleep Lord Bears Seasons Lays Finals Temptation Satan Permit Lions Prey Knights Helmet Arches Paws Armour Deceiver War Time

Book:Morning and Evening

Source: Morning and Evening

“Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.”

Life Kind Easy Kindness Keys Stealing Welcome Thieves Deceiver

Author:John Dryden