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Quotes About Deception

She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
~ L. Frank Baum
wonderful power the Silver Shoes gave her. So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, I can still make her my slave, for she does not know how
~ L. Frank Baum
No; you are all wrong," said the little man, meekly. "I have been making believe." "Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great Wizard?
~ L. Frank Baum
That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they seem to exist, and yet it's all seeming and not true.
~ L. Frank Baum
That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they
~ L. Frank Baum
Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.
~ L. Frank Baum
the surest way to lie to others is to lie to oneself first. If you can convince the single soul who knows the falsehood for what it is, then everyone else is an easy mark.
~ L. Neil Smith
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.
~ Taylor Swift
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
~ Terence McKenna
I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
~ Bruce Springsteen
People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don't realize is perfection is terrifying.
~ Dominic Riccitello
It's not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck..." I imply with a shrug "...well then you know what they say.""Nothing hap?""Quack!
~ K. Bromberg
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
~ Unknown
Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.
~ Richard Rohr
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
~ Unknown
I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.
~ Keith Green
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
~ C. S. Lewis
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
~ Demosthenes
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.
~ John Adams
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
~ Martin Luther
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
~ Thomas A. Edison