Quotes About Deception

Confession of the mouth without faith in the heart is gross hypocrisy.

Satan, in tempting the saint to sin, labours to make a breech between God and the soul. He hates both, and therefore labours to divide these dear friends. If

Thus you find God represented to you as merciful and gracious, but not to such a great sinner as you. to have power and strength, but not able to save thee; you may say, Avaunt, Satan, thy speech betrayeth thee.

Satan comes as a serpent in the persons of false teachers, and by them labours to put a cheat on us, and cozen us with error for truth.

O how true are poor sinners to the devil's trust!

And you must know conscience is a faculty that is corrupted as much as any other by nature, and is very oft made use of by Satan to deceive both good and bad, godly and ungodly.

The hypocrite in prayer juggles, he asks what he would not thank God to give him.

This indeed makes it easy for Christ's sheep to be infected with the scab of error, because that weed which breeds the rot is so like the grass that nourisheth them.

A false heart yields when sin comes with a bribe in its hand.

the devil is the merchant, and the sinner but the broker to trade for him, who at last puts all his gains into the devil's purse. Time,

Our sin is the engine, Satan is the engineer; lust the bait, Satan the angler.

Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.

Look: if a bird were to rub its beak on a limb, you'd hear it—sure—and if a piece of water were to move an unaccustomed way, you'd feel it—that's right—and if a fox were to steal a hen, you'd see-you'd see it—even in the middle of the night; but, heaven help you, if a friend a friend—god—were to slit your throat with his—his love—hoh, you'd bleed a week to notice it.

Prospects: a prickly word, a sour betrayer. It was supposed to fill your thoughts with gold, or with clear air and great and lovely distances. Well, the metal came quickly enough to mind, but beards followed shortly, dirt and the deceptions of the desert, biscuits like powdered pumice, tin spoons, stinking mules, clattering cups, stinking water, deceiving air. ... Prospects. They made him think dirt. They made him think rags, snakes, picks, and the murder of companions.

What cannot be won by force of arms can often be achieved through cunning, deceit, or by a concealed blade slipped into an enemy's back. —Nicolai

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself, too, if he could.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please — that is as they please or displease us.

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.