Quotes About Deception

Man follows only phantoms.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.