Quotes About Deception

Help me understand that sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception. Truth will never fail to return enormous dividends.

Satan still takes advantage of women and men, seizing their powers of influence for his own purposes.

I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted from a complete and pure devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3

We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2

If we have received Christ as our Savior, Satan is forced to work from the outside rather than the inside. Thus, he manipulates outside influences to affect the inside decision-makers of the heart and mind.

Delusion never delivers.

He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself, or say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?" Isaiah 44:20

Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie—unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free.

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.

Michael Flynn was forced to resign, we are told, because he told a big lie. But what about the little ones?

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

Politics makes me sick.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

My mother used to ask me to stay home from school and keep her company. I'd fake I was sick, and she'd fake believing me.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

I get to act out two roles on 'The Legend of the Blue Sea,' including one as a con man, and so I'll be able to show many diverse sides to me.