Quotes About Deception

Robert C. Winthrop says: "Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins.

Don't ever have hope on fake people because they always gives us fake hope.. wasting of our time... Believe in god and follow our own way

We spend most of our life cooking up all kinds of untrue things. Why? So we won't be afraid. The mind likes to soothe itself with stories, and after they get made up, we run around under their spell.

Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were.

Every person has two selves, a lower self that is born of flesh and tied to the illusions of the material world, and a higher self that is eternal and unborn, with no attachments at all. The lower self craves pleasure, the higher self knows only bliss. The lower self cringes from pain, the higher self has never felt pain. If that was true, then Gautama had to find his higher self or be lost in the endless quicksand of the mind's deceptions.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

From what you didn't say, lies that you did say.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

they will later reveal truth after history has digested the lie.

No one fools anyone much, except himself," said Jacob to himself. "How do I fool myself?

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

I'd been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I'd even known, for three days under a phony name, shooting heroin. We made love in the bed, ate steaks at the restaurant, shot up in the john, puked, cried, accused one another, begged of one another, forgave, promised, and carried one another to heaven.