Quotes About Deception

A saint abroad and a devil at home.

Este árbol", dijo él, "cuyo exterior se ve bien y cuyo interior está podrido, es a quien muchos que están en el huerto de Dios pueden compararse; quienes con su boca hablan grandes cosas en nombre de Dios, pero ciertamente no hacen nada por Él; cuyas hojas son bonitas, pero su corazón no es bueno para nada excepto para ser leña para el diablo".

there is but little of this faithful dealing with men now-a-days, and that makes religion to stink so in the nostrils of many, as it doth; for they are these talkative fools whose religion is only in word, and are debauched and vain in their conversation, that (being so much admitted into the fellowship of the godly) do puzzle the world, blemish Christianity, and grieve the sincere.

By-ends represents the kind of man who has lifted himself up through craft and manipulation, loves all that is sophisticated and refined, and uses his religious affiliation to advance his own career. His earthy bank account is all that matters. He has no account in Heaven and no checkbook backed by true faith upon which to draw. 4.

Danger. Its name indicates that this is not the straight way but is a way of great variety and many religious philosophies. Hypocrisy

Like most incurable fibbers, she had an extravagant regard for the truth, which she expressed by sending up signals meant to indicate that she was lying.

bulk of superstition that is supposed to attend good fortune, and when he wished for white shirts, it was not a genuinely modest wish so much as it was a memory—he could not have put it into words himself—that the gods of fortune are jealous and easily deceived by false modesty. He had never been a superstitious man, but on Tuesday he scooped the money off his coffee table and was elated when he saw a ladybug on the bathroom window sill.

He had dragged her good name through a hundred escapades, debauched her excellence, and thrown away her love, but she had never imagined that he would betray her in their plans for the end of the world.

The belief that a crooked heart is betrayed by palsies, tics, and other infirmities dies hard.

isn't it true that when some couple celebrates their tenth or fifteenth anniversary they seem far from triumphant? In fact they seem duped while dirty Uncle Harry, the rake, seems to wear the laurels.

One minute, I was saying, "Hello, Mr. Bunny!" and smiling at its sweet little face and funny floppy ears. The next, the fucker savaged me.

The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as the principal method for creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.

Sometimes your heart can be your worst enemy because it can and sometimes will deceive you.

The hardest thing about knowing you don't love me is that you spent so much time pretending that you did.

Everything about you is a conspiracy. Just like your love you have for me. It's all a broken dream, with things that are never what they seem.

He lies, she cries. He's not sorry, but he apologizes. She complains, he doesn't change, but yet, she still stays.

A guy can make you think he loves you, but he really doesnt. A girl can make you think she doesnt love you, when she really does.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

Lie to me one time and you dont ever have to worry about telling me the truth again, I'm done with you. There will be no more chances.

I don't understand why I let myself stay with you, after all the lies and all the tears cried. What makes you so fu..ing special?

You make me sound like a criminal even though it was you who broke my heart.

I don't know what the point of leading someone on is. Does breaking someone's heart bring you satisfaction? All they wanted was you. Remember that.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

The guy I thought was right, turned out to be wrong. He decided in his heart, I did not belong. I thought homeless was bad enough. But heartless thats ruination.