Quotations on Deceit | Quotations: 14 | Pages: 2
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by John Dryden
(August 9, 1631 - May 1, 1700) |
But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. |
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by Aischylos
(525 BC - 456 BC) |
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. |
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by John Milton
(December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) |
He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow. |
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by Jean de La Fontaine
(July 8, 1621 - April 14, 1695) |
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
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by Jean de La Fontaine
(July 8, 1621 - April 14, 1695) |
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
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by John Locke
(August 29, 1632 - October 28, 1704) |
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. |
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by Françoise Sagan
(June 21, 1935 - ) |
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. |
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by Benjamin Franklin
(January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) |
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. |
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by Blaise Pascal
(June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662) |
We like to be deceived. |
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Authors with quotations on topic Deceit:
Aischylos (1)
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Bruyère, Jean de La (2)
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Dryden, John (1)
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Fontaine, Jean de La (2)
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Franklin, Benjamin (1)
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1)
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Lincoln, Abraham (1)
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Locke, John (1)
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Milton, John (1)
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Pascal, Blaise (1)
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Sagan, Françoise (1)
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Twain, Mark (1)
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