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  • It's a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare's powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates?†   (source)
  • I had convinced myself for many months that I didn't really mind the absence of intimacy in my life, the lack of real human connection, but the pleasure I'd felt in this woman's company, the ring of her laughter, the innocent touch of a hand on my arm, exposed my self-deceit and left me hollow and aching.†   (source)
  • Answer the following question without your typical deceit: Between the years of 1962 and 1965, did you not decide on your own to add relativity to the intro physics course?†   (source)
  • For rather than being tools of self-discovery, mirrors tended to be tools of self-deceit.†   (source)
  • Lying, deceitful rabble!†   (source)
  • What we ended up doing—and I know it sounds highly intrusive—was to remove every opportunity for deceit from Cassie's personal life.†   (source)
  • Nobody could deny the enormous good the modern Church did in today's troubled world, and yet the Church had a deceitful and violent history.†   (source)
  • Had she been a deceitful wife? she asked herself.†   (source)
  • There's a lot a grudgefulness and deceitfulness."†   (source)
  • She was deceitful, cunning, vicious.†   (source)
  • Are masses of young Americans outraged at the Reagan administration's shoddy and deceitful behavior?†   (source)
  • Deceits of the mind.†   (source)
  • But what was more deceitful is that I hacked into my mom's e-mail and answered the principal's note about going to see a district counselor.†   (source)
  • His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.†   (source)
  • They are gods of deceit who tell you to kill your fellows and destroy innocent children.†   (source)
  • My reign thrives on deceit and violence.'†   (source)
  • For that, you repaid us with treachery, turning my own brother against his blood with your deceit.†   (source)
  • Hated the bribe and the tease—the deceit.†   (source)
  • Then the girl has been disobedient and deceitful.†   (source)
  • Everything done to them—every cruel trick played, every deceit, every monster placed in their paths—it all had been part of an elaborate experiment.†   (source)
  • The deceit made him feel soiled.†   (source)
  • So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas.†   (source)
  • Does that mean a life of deceit and laziness is easy too?†   (source)
  • I hate that even though every ounce of anger in me is a result of his deceit, my body still responds to his touch.†   (source)
  • Also, while speaking it, it's impossible to practice deceit.†   (source)
  • I wished Kate were not so enthusiastic at this game of deceit.†   (source)
  • But they are also pitfalls of deceit and misperception.†   (source)
  • Since his arrival, his deceitful, egotistical, and self-promoting ways had rubbed a number of the manhunters the wrong way.†   (source)
  • Father, who was incapable of practicing deceit or even recognizing it, took a long and earnest sniff.†   (source)
  • I felt as if our positioning was deceitful.†   (source)
  • He laid his finger beside his nose, a sign of stealth, or perhaps deceit.†   (source)
  • No smoke yet showed above the rooftops, so, reassured, all the faces turned back to Capricorn, who was saying something about deceit and falsehood, discipline and negligence, but Elinor only half heard him.†   (source)
  • Deceitful.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, let me myself hazard a guess as to the answer, for such a gentleman capable of the levels of deceit he has displayed over these past days should not be relied upon to provide a truthful reply.†   (source)
  • This denial of God's commandments leads to all the other immoral manifestations of greed — unjust self-enrichment, hatred, deceit, sexual licence resulting in infertility and the downfall of the German people.†   (source)
  • And we waited, and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson came, and said, Under my own roof, what a deceitful girl.†   (source)
  • Deceit and treachery brought me to it, but her death is on my hands.†   (source)
  • Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow.†   (source)
  • Deceitful girl, thought Fujiko.†   (source)
  • Mother must have concluded that since I was above out-and-out lying I was also beyond deceit.†   (source)
  • I am so cunning, crafty and clever, so filled with deceit, guile and chicanery, such a knave, so shrewd, cagey as well as calculating, as diabolical as I am vulpine, as tricky as I am untrustworthy …. well, I told you there were not words invented yet to explain how great my brain is, but let me put it this way: the world is several million years old and several billion people have at one time or another trod upon it, but I, Vizzini the Sicilian, am, speaking with pure candor and…†   (source)
  • When she had been safe and respectable, so had the world been safe and respectable; now the entire world was bitter with deceit and danger and loss; and which was the greater illusion?†   (source)
  • "The deceit of the accused is amazing," he said at one point.†   (source)
  • As he spoke, he tiptoed slowly toward them with his arms outstretched and continued to whisper in a soft, deceitful voice," Now do come and stay with me.†   (source)
  • They can sense deceit.†   (source)
  • Even cheating in the classroom is rather highly specific, for a child may cheat on an arithmetic test and not on a spelling test, etc. Whether a child will practice deceit in any given situation depends in part on his intelligence, age, home background, and the like and in part on the nature of the situation itself and his particular relation to it.†   (source)
  • It may be sad but not surprising to learn that experts like Snyder can be self-interested to the point of deceit.†   (source)
  • In the service of your country it is often necessary to perform these deceits.†   (source)
  • After hours of being treated as ungrateful and deceitful children, this stranger showed us remarkable sensitivity.†   (source)
  • This is how the Boss would finally draw some sympathy, an old man put to sleep in a complex scheme so expedient and deceitful as to be widely admired even as it was only half believed.†   (source)
  • But as you are such an honorable man, I find that my heart will not permit me to continue this deceit.†   (source)
  • We laughed at her naive love for the deceitful Prince Albrecht.†   (source)
  • Some become manipulators of illusion and deceit.†   (source)
  • It says something about my mother, and her utter and total belief in the love stories she not only wrote but lived, that she was able to say this then, not two hours after her fifth marriage had dissolved in a puddle of deceit, bad cliches, and discarded Ensure cans.†   (source)
  • Why the ruses and deceit?†   (source)
  • The Sarah he'd fallen in love with wasn't capable of deceit.†   (source)
  • 'You are a set of deceitful scoundrels!' he said, turning to the others.†   (source)
  • I almost felt deceitful, withholding, filling her in on what had taken place in Napa yet leaving out the important development that was going on inside of me.†   (source)
  • The chaplain felt most deceitful presiding at funerals, and it would not have astonished him to learn that the apparition in the tree that day was a manifestation of the Almighty's censure for the blasphemy and pride inherent in his function.†   (source)
  • I had always known she had been born in the year of the monkey, but I'd never realized that its traits of deceit and cunning ran so strongly in her.†   (source)
  • But when men responded by asking for what they felt they had been promised, they met with strong resistance, and their only explanation for it was that she was deceitful and malicious.†   (source)
  • But I simply can't tell my kind, loving parents that their so-called successful daughter with her so-called top job is in fact a disorganized, deceitful mess, up to her eyeballs in debt.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was written on my face that I'd become aware of human complexity—that's a kinder word than "deceit."†   (source)
  • It might become necessary to approach him later, but for now Wade Lanier and Lester Chilcott were quite content to spin a web of silence and deceit.†   (source)
  • Qurong would prefer to face a sword any day over this heroic deceit they called the Circle.†   (source)
  • What are you doing about our black youth shot down beca'se of your deceitful organization?†   (source)
  • You and Grandmother were shouting so loud that night and I couldn't help overhearing," and, since there was no point in being deceitful at a time like this, she also added, "Especially since I was trying hard to."†   (source)
  • A fellow Connecticut officer, Captain William Hull, who had known Hale in college, tried to talk him out of it, warning that he was by nature "too frank and open for deceit and disguise," and that no one respected the character of a spy.†   (source)
  • Maybe this is the nightmare that's been visited upon you after twenty years of deceit.†   (source)
  • Deceit?†   (source)
  • After saying my evening prayers I would roll over, feeling relieved that I had truly escaped Mother's tangled web of hate and deceit.†   (source)
  • Deceit.†   (source)
  • Humans were deceitful, treacherous creatures.†   (source)
  • But so faint was the trail, so set with traps and deceits, that every step must be taken with caution, and it was too dangerous for a man to rely on his own judgement.†   (source)
  • They are clever in their deceits, and their voices are wound with spells to ensnare you.†   (source)
  • The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud-he was guilty of them all.†   (source)
  • My brain is trying to keep up with everything, to put out fires, to think of ways to tell my parents that Finch is not this lying, deceitful boy they seem to think he is.†   (source)
  • Isn't it time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age?†   (source)
  • I have no need nor desire to learn the magical deceits of his decrepit race!†   (source)
  • For over ten years, I've been traveling every day to this bizarre world of lies and deceit.†   (source)
  • They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.†   (source)
  • It was too late now to say all that was due to her, and the regrets he felt were less for his deceits than for his past indifference.†   (source)
  • Do you know what I'm going to do to you two deceitful, unspeakable pigs?†   (source)
  • Govinda knew: he would not become a common Brahman, not a lazy official in charge of offerings; not a greedy merchant with magic spells; not a vain, vacuous speaker; not a mean, deceitful priest; and also not a decent, stupid sheep in the herd of the many.†   (source)
  • — Aware of the overwhelming temptations which assail a man permanently isolated in his deceit, Leamas resorted to the course which armed him best; even when he was alone, he compelled himself to live with the personality he had assumed.†   (source)
  • That this little boy whom he inhabited was only the cruelest of deceits.†   (source)
  • I told him of her earlier visit and the grain she had extorted from me also; and it seemed to me that a new peace came to us then, freed at last from the necessity for lies and concealment and deceit, with the fear of betrayal lifted from us, and with the power we ourselves had given her wrested finally from Kunthi.†   (source)
  • The shoemaker felt a terrible anger at him for his deceit.†   (source)
  • there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.   (source)
  • Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.   (source)
  • I'll never forget her deceit.
    deceit = act of lying to or misleading someone
  • Again the brotherhood had confirmed their legendary reputation for illusion and deceit.†   (source)
  • My mother says it was treachery and deceit.†   (source)
  • PROCTOR: Because it speaks deceit, and I am honest!†   (source)
  • I don't know how you could have been so deceitful.†   (source)
  • "She'd certainly like the fairies," he said at last, "although they're deceitful little things.†   (source)
  • Death and deceit are our only hopes now.†   (source)
  • The mistake was in your having been deceitful.†   (source)
  • It is not to be wondered at: webs of deceit were ever woven in Dwimordene.†   (source)
  • —from THE ROSE OF BATTLE, W. B. Yeats Nothing is easier than self-deceit.†   (source)
  • Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.†   (source)
  • "Long ago," Ginnarr began, "the trickster Loki had angered the gods through his deceits.†   (source)
  • I had to win the trial without deceit so no one can question my leadership in the future.†   (source)
  • Sam didn't like talking about the god of deceit and trickery.†   (source)
  • The man lives for deceit, and he expects the same from everyone else.†   (source)
  • However, the majority of Americans saw through the deceit and decided judiciously.†   (source)
  • So use every power of deceit you can command, but convince them that you hate me.†   (source)
  • Many cover their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit.†   (source)
  • I ought cut you down here and now and put an end to your lies and deceits.†   (source)
  • I should not leave in the way I came to Missing and to you, hiding and in deceit.†   (source)
  • I would advise you to be on guard against all forms of trickery and deceit disguised as truth.†   (source)
  • Broker peace so that they might be free to work their deceit?†   (source)
  • Since my past was so mired in lies and deceit, I valued honesty above everything else.†   (source)
  • So much for deceit, for accepting blame.†   (source)
  • Are such suspicions founded, or do I see deceit and deception around every corner now?†   (source)
  • They know that we could send a messenger who is trained in deceit, programmed for action.†   (source)
  • Do you not care that Miss Bradshaw made a fool of me—and you—by her deceit?†   (source)
  • Woodall's numerous deceits became an international scandal, reported on the front pages of newspapers throughout the British Commonwealth.†   (source)
  • But the deceit!†   (source)
  • What deceit from our only son!" the Lord of Diamonds lamented, although he and his wife had both known about Jack's activities.†   (source)
  • In addition to these, the camerlegno had found the Illuminati Collection-all the secrets the church had uncovered after banishing the group from Rome …. their contemptible Path of Illumination …. the cunning deceit of the Vatican's head artist, Bernini ….†   (source)
  • Nehemia had been deceitful about her language skills, and how much she knew about the Wyrdmarks, but she could have any number of reasons for that.†   (source)
  • I'm afraid that we have a traitor, or traitors, in our midst, despite our efforts to examine people's minds for deceit.†   (source)
  • The need for deceit was a hitter taste in his mouth, but Ned knew he must tread softly here, must keep his counsel and play the game until he was firmly established as regent.†   (source)
  • The depth of her deceit became vivid to Fujiko, and she felt in herself a mother's rage at the weight of this betrayal.†   (source)
  • It seemed to her certain that she would suffer from the consequences of it, that no one could maintain such deceit for so long without paying for it somehow.†   (source)
  • She did not have enough money to buy a return ticket, and at any rate, she knew in her bones, she could not return to her family in Japan—her parents had sold her and paid a percentage to the deceitful baishakunin who had assured them that Hisao had amassed great wealth during his years in America.†   (source)
  • They're singing of trickery and deceits, dark gods and vengeance," said Miss Boon, frowning as a pipe began to play.†   (source)
  • They would find no treason or deceit in them, it is true, but they would find weakness and indiscretion, which they would make as ill use of.†   (source)
  • Amiable rogues all three, the brothers were in truth much more skilled at deceit than they'd ever been at bloodletting.†   (source)
  • When his deceit was discovered, his own Sworn Brothers gelded him, and the Old King sent him to the Wall.†   (source)
  • The white socks, the Mary Janes, the always-inadequate birthday present swathed in tissue paper, and the little girls with their assessing eyes, their slippery deceitful smiles, tartaned up like Lady Macbeth.†   (source)
  • We survived by hiding ourselves through deceit and magic, which is but a temporary measure, for eventually Galbatorix will be strong enough to march upon us and sweep aside our defenses.†   (source)
  • They were the enemy, and it wasn't their rotting flesh that Thomas hated as much as their treacherous, deceitful hearts.†   (source)
  • He imagined the many dangers of the march: treachery and deceit at every turn, disease, thirst, jungle beasts crouching in ambush; but, yes, he also imagined the good times ahead, the sting of aloneness, the great new quiet, new leanness and knowledge and wisdom.†   (source)
  • Adams was "that strange compound of ignorance and ferocity, of deceit and weakness," a "hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman."†   (source)
  • It smelled of deceit, of whispers and lies and plots hatched in the dark, all the things he'd hoped to leave behind with the Spider and Lord Littlefinger and their ilk.†   (source)
  • Their complete findings can be found in Hugh Hartshornc and Mark May, Studies in the Nature of Character, vol. 1, Studies in Deceit (New York: Macmillan, 1928).†   (source)
  • I had dealt myself the cards of deceit, exposure, shame, near-bankruptcy, and self-imposed isolation.†   (source)
  • Who would shield him against animosity and deceit, against people with ambition and the embittered snobbery of the big shot's wife, against the squalid, corrupting indignities of the profit motive and the friendly neighborhood butcher with inferior meat?†   (source)
  • But once I began to focus on her weaknesses, a pattern of deceit, deception, and betrayal began to emerge.†   (source)
  • Their eyes during these conversations look dewy, blurred, pulpy, easily hurt, like the eyes of blind baby kittens; but also sly and speculative, and filled with greed and deceit.†   (source)
  • We needed not the fell voice of the messenger to warn us that his words held both menace and deceit; for we knew already that the power that has re-entered Mordor has not changed, and ever it betrayed us of old.†   (source)
  • Visually, the apparition was flawless, but it had no mind of its own, and if any of Galbatorix's agents tried to eavesdrop upon Eragon's thoughts, they would discover the deceit forthwith.†   (source)
  • Self-deceit was a suit that didn't fit him well, and even as he lied to Mercy Ealing, he stood naked to himself, excruciatingly aware of what he had been hoping, thinking.†   (source)
  • Otherwise he would have been clearer, more forthcoming; instead, for reasons Jason could not fathom, Alexander Conklin did not want to talk about Medusa or whatever he had learned in peeling away twenty years of deceit.†   (source)
  • I didn't know how to discuss my feelings about my mother without reminding Snow Flower of her own deceit.†   (source)
  • What if this evening's anxiety was nothing more than the result of a deftly scripted act of deceit intended to lay blame on my maid and win her forcible removal from our home?†   (source)
  • With a look of stubborn bewilderment, with the last of her effort at self-deceit, she moaned in a voice of tearfully petulant reproach, "Are you really incapable of forgiveness?"†   (source)
  • If he was less than outstanding as an administrator, if he had too readily gone along with the Mien and Sedition Acts, and was slow to see deceit within his own cabinet, he had managed nonetheless to cope with a divided country and a divided party, and in the end achieved a rare level of statesmanship.†   (source)
  • I came to Ethiopia in deceit.†   (source)
  • The dark eye has fallen upon her, and the minions of night are plotting her destruction, praying to their false gods in temples of deceit …. conspiring at betrayal with godless outlanders ….†   (source)
  • Terrence Toyne's treason and the deceits of Lucamore the Lusty were recorded in the White Book, but there was no hint of a woman on Prince Lewyn's page.†   (source)
  • A row of Hit-the-Gong machines drew contorted faces and thick necks bulging with veins as men sought furiously and frequently in frustration to prove their manhood, crashing heavy wooden mallets down on the deceitful planks that too often refused to send the little red balls up to the bells.†   (source)
  • These contracts may not involve direct fraud or deceit sufficient to invalidate them in a court of law.†   (source)
  • I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem also to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy.†   (source)
  • But this-she thought-was men's moral code in the outer world, a code that told them to act on the premise of one another's weakness, deceit and stupidity, and this was the pattern of their lives, this struggle through a fog of the pretended and unacknowledged, this belief that facts are not solid or final, this state where, denying any form to reality, men stumble through life, unreal and unformed, and die having never been born.†   (source)
  • Was he a selfish, avaricious, designing, deceitful villain, I should think he had encroached upon the old gentleman's prerogatives.†   (source)
  • In Jeremiah 17 it is written, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, and who can understand it?"†   (source)
  • Deceit Used to Pervert Public Opinion†   (source)
  • You cannot always trust what you see and hear, for it is a land of both enchantment and deceit, and you will need to discern which is which.†   (source)
  • The fact that both men were shy and unassuming seemed almost deceitful given the ambition, the hubris, that had allowed them to risk Shiva's life for mine.†   (source)
  • Her deceit!†   (source)
  • …the cost to him and to her, then dragging the rest of his years through the waste of the unreached and unfulfilled —she, turning for consolation to a second choice, faking a love she did not feel, being willing to fake, since her will to self-deceit was the essential required for Galt's self-sacrifice, then living out her years in hopeless longing, accepting, as relief for an unhealing wound, some moments of weary affection, plus the tenet that love is futile and happiness is not to be…†   (source)
  • She did not like to think of with what hardness of heart, what calculated weeping, what deceit, what cruelty she now went into battle with her aunt for her freedom.†   (source)
  • He felt thirsty, and images of stealthiness and deceit, of openness, anger and pride, immediately possessed him, and immediately he fought them off.†   (source)
  • If that is done without deceit, then we will depart, and the elf-host will go back to the Forest.†   (source)
  • Shall he who held the solid substance Wander waking with deceitful shadows?†   (source)
  • One of the most terrible things about them is their deceit.†   (source)
  • Because he looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.†   (source)
  • He couldn't think of a lie; he felt as if ten years had exhausted his whole stock of deceit.†   (source)
  • He had slept with Guenever already in deceit, already had been cheated of his tenfold might.†   (source)
  • She was not a minx, not deceitful, not designing and heartless.†   (source)
  • And I knew then I could not stand this life of lies and filth and deceit any longer.†   (source)
  • Eugene never forgot: even when he had reached manhood the deception of "Little Jimmy" returned to him, without rancor, without ugliness, only with pain for all the blind waste, the stupid perjury, the thoughtless dishonor, the crippling dull deceit.†   (source)
  • Hence, whites placed a premium upon black deceit; they encouraged irresponsibility; and their rewards were bestowed upon us blacks in the degree that we could make them feel safe and superior.†   (source)
  • Let me be sincere--be deceitful.†   (source)
  • You looked older suddenly, deceitful.†   (source)
  • I did not like what I foresaw Mrs. Renling would make of it, and so I was satisfied to let her think it was Thea, the kinky-haired but also glorious-looking sister I carried the torch for, and I used some deceit.†   (source)
  • And the cruel deceit of Janie!†   (source)
  • The folk mythologies populate with deceitful and dangerous presences every desert place outside the normal traffic of the village.†   (source)
  • To deceit?†   (source)
  • I need it for my own heart, and she is a deceitful and untrustworthy creature, and I do not like it that she is near you from dawn to sunset.†   (source)
  • All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness — everything has been burned out of her.†   (source)
  • He couldn't be caught off balance, he clung hard, he was clever, and he knew a thing or two about deceit himself, Grammick did.†   (source)
  • And I knew that she was hating herself for that deceit and hating Jewel because she had to love him so that she had to act the deceit.†   (source)
  • I put it back in the box again, and shut the drawer, feeling guilty suddenly, and deceitful, as though I were staying in somebody else's house and my hostess had said to me, 'Yes, of course, write letters at my desk,' and I had unforgivably, in a stealthy manner, peeped at her correspondence.†   (source)
  • And that may have been when I first found it out, that Addie Bundren should be hiding anything she did, who had tried to teach us that deceit was such that, in a world where it was, nothing else could be very bad or very important, not even poverty.†   (source)
  • They are expecting you to succeed, and you are to fail: you are to publish the deceit which you have practised for a quarter of a century, and they will all immediately know the reason for it—that reason of shame which you have sought to conceal from your own mind, and which, when it has remembered itself in the silence of your empty chamber, has pricked you into a physical motion of your head to throw it off.†   (source)
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