Quotes About Deception

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody.

It made me feel low that I couldn't praise him without reservation. But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

But we are all finally tricked and slapped to death.

You don't have to go to the movies to see a horror show.

If you managed to fool a man, it doesn't mean he's a fool, it means you were trusted more than you deserve.

Then there are guys who fuck you and then chop you up into little pieces. They find parts of your asshole stuffed up a drainpipe in Playa del Rey and your left tit in a trashcan down at Oceanside...

The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or given away as servants, or rather slaves, for as long a time as the owners can deceive them; but I believe in this respect there is little to complain of.

He is so full of manure, that man, we could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him. Ruby about her dad in Cold Mountain

oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Some in clandestine companies combine; Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line; With air and empty names beguile the town, And raise new credits first, then cry 'em down; Divide the empty nothing into shares, And set the crowd together by the ears. – Defoe

Do you think they killed Oswald?" "No," Christopher said. "If I'm right about how they handled him, it would have been wasteful. He didn't know who they were. They must have told him they'd get him out after the shooting, set him up as a hero under a fake identity. He would have believed that.

The lie of the devil consists of this: that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without Gods word. " —TEMPTATION

The devil... takes the word of God's grace in his hand and whispers to us: God is a God of grace; he will not take our sins so seriously.

La moralización y la legalización del evangelio de la gracia de Dios es una pobre herejía que se trata de diseminar entre personas desilusionadas que se sienten defraudadas porque no han recibido lo que tampoco tienen razón de esperar.

Satan is real, and he is relentless in his attacks on people of the light. Satan and his demons don't look anything like the depictions we see flickering across the screen in movies or on television. He subtly plays upon the fallibilities of good people to convince them that their darkest desires and most destructive activities are innocent, even righteous. His chief weapon is deception, and he uses it masterfully.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption. . . . Galatians 6:7–

fictional Iraqi projects to build weapons of mass destruction. The administration used nonexistent weapons as the justification for invading Iraq, and by the time the lies were uncovered it was far too late.

numbers have a hold on us. They are powerful—almost mystical. Because we think that numbers represent truth, it's hard for us to imagine that a number can be made to lie.

Epstein was one of thousands, if not millions, of people—undoubtedly mostly men—who've been suckered into thinking a machine was a potential date.

Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who's never seen a television before. Because it's not a TV. It's a flat-screen PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition. They can't be that dumb. It's got to be a trap, I gibber to myself. Not even the clueless cannon-fodder-in-jumpsuits who staff any one of the movies on the shelf would be that dumb!

There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull.

The PM smiles, and for a moment I see a flickering vision where His face should be: an onion-skin Matryoshka doll of circular shark-toothed maws, lizard-man faces, and insectile hunger. "A word in my study if you don't mind. Right this way.

We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively.