Quotes About Deception

On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!

Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!

They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.