Quotes About Deception

that fool Public Relations man who's always clapping his wet hands together and saying how overjoyed he is that mental hospitals have eliminated all the old-fashioned cruelty

Besides there are somethings that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

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One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was Jon's momma used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury every time Jon's daddy would come home boozed. Jon never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing, same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry, booze come to be something holy to him and with faith like that Jon grew up religious as a deacon.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

Power factions fight back with lies.

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.