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Letter "D" » deceit
«Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast / And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.»
«I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.»
Author: Christopher Hampton
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«Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.»
«It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.»
Author: Noel Coward
(Actor, Composer, Playwright)
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and how, deceit, deceits, discouraging, honesty, shocked
«It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit»
«In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.»
«His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.»
«I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? / For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? / Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? / Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? / If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; / Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.»
Author: Bible
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«One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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built in, deceit, deceits, in the air, One House
«It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
deceit, deficiencies, detects, feminine
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