Quotes About Deception

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands

Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves—that you could have magic without monsters.

He could never care about you. He sees you in the same way they see all of us: ruthless, cruel and power hungry." He laughed callously. "I guess we're about to prove them right.

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.

Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.