Quotes About Deception

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Every believer must test all teachers to-day, for himself, by the Word of God, and their attitude to the atoning Cross of Christ, and other fundamental truths of the gospel, and not be misled into testing "teaching" by the character of the teacher. Good men can be deceived, and Satan needs good men to float his lies under the guise of truth.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.

Ghouls, perhaps. Some here are certainly that. What else can we call one who thrives on ripping out another's throat, or on deceiving people into ruin or servitude. I would say they are ghouls.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Truth is the safest lie.

What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies.

We finally learned that the whole Cultural Revolution had been part of a power struggle at the highest levels of the Party. Our leader had taken advantage of our trust and loyalty to manipulate the whole country. This

In the primitive simplicity of their minds they are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones.

In 1934, after Upton Sinclair was defeated in his campaign to become the next governor of California, he labeled the advertising concern that defeated him a "lie factory." Marston took much the same view. One of Wonder Woman's most sinister adversaries, the Duke of Deception, runs an advertising firm called the Lie Factory.

Simulacra and Simulation, a metatext about the meaningless "hell of simulation.

Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all.

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.

On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea

But even as the words were coming out of his mouth, he was slightly despising himself for saying them. It was what girls liked to hear though. Every now and again Dex found himself feeling like an actor who'd been performing in the same stage play for far too long. The lines came out automatically, irrespective of whether or not they were true.

Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

The late Dominic Breckland, Viscount Stratfield, was returning to life in a sea of woman's underwear.

She probably should've seen it coming, but she'd put too much faith in the system. And that was a hard pill to swallow.

Lord of the Lies - referencing former President Trump

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation.

Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, "The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independently of God.