We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

- Evelyn Waugh

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

- Ira Sachs

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

- Lucien Bouchard

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.

- Moshe Sharett

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

- Noam Chomsky

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noel Coward

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

- Noel Coward

The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

- Pankaj Mishra

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

- Rhys Ifans

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

- Unknown