Quotes About Deception

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”

Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.

He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

Surely extortion turns a wise man into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.

Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.