Quotes About Deception

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

No lie ever reaches old age.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Who can believe in illusion even if we all live the Illusion of Life?

I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.

Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

It never ceases to amaze, how often sex and love lead to murder and hatred.

We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said," Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

And the Savior said that the very elect would be deceived by Lucifer if it were possible [see Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:22]. [Lucifer] will use his logic to confuse and his rationalizations to destroy. He will shade meanings, open doors an inch at a time, and lead from purest white through all the shades of gray to the darkest black.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." (John 3:19-20.)

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life.

Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself.

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Emotional attachment to Maya is created by my God; He Himself misleads us through illusion and doubt.

He Himself is Maya, and He Himself is the Illusion. He Himself has generated emotional attachment throughout the entire universe.

All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.