Quotes About Deception

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

At least Harry realized that some of the worst murderers were the biggest criers at their victims' funerals.

What are you doing in a fancy Yankee uniform?" Sally Ann asked. Rhine didn't reply. As the silence lengthened, she offered a bitter chuckle. "Passing again, are you?" Rhine's ivory skin, jet black hair, and green eyes made it easy for him to pass as someone he wasn't. He was ten years old when he first realized he could do it successfully.

Beauty can blind you." "But it shouldn't make you stupid.

I'd given him my virginity because he told me I was special, but apparently I was simply a new link in a very long chain." "So what did you do?" ... "Put red pepper sauce in his rubbers.

Yes, it was and they were furious to find themselves in Rock Springs. Reminded me of the government's broken treaties with the Native tribes. Promise something knowing it's a lie.

In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that while investigators shouldn't threaten possible consequences—grand jury investigation, prison time, execution—or make promises of leniency, they can use tactics of "reasonable deception" and duplicity to solve crimes. Another reason neither to believe what cops say nor to answer their questions.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself....

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

Truth breeds hatred.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint

These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.

Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

AMBIDEXTROUS, adj. Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.