Quotes About Deception

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

This was a lie. The young prophet believed the old prophet and went back with him. The LORD said because the young prophet disobeyed God's instructions, he would die. On the way back home, the young prophet was killed by a lion. Even though someone, even a true prophet, says "the LORD said" or "an angel told me" does not mean he is not lying or has not deceived himself. Always check what God says in the Scriptures. To do this

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong.

Trail of the Octopus,

Ruthless Killers strike with Weapons and Pretentious Friends kill with Kisses. It's easy to avoid the former, but not so the later

One of the ways the devil has deceived us and controlled our finances is through debt.

My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.

Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.' 'Pleased to meet you,' I lied.

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?

Truth is always what they don't say.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

A man of little learning deems that little a great deal; a frog, never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.

An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have his ears Blown maggots in by flatterers.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.

Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.