Quotes About Deceit

Satan's strategy is effective because he sprinkles his poisonous brew with just enough veracity that we'll swallow it.

It's so obviously bogus, no one will look for a second layer of, er, bogusity.

It could not buy that of Ignatius, she interrupted with a look of triumph, for amidst so much deceit she felt a double gratitude that one man had been found true.

For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

True, fear deceptively offers to help us. It too offers to keep us on the right track. Yet the one who strives in fear never becomes God's friend. Fear is a deceitful aid. It can sour your delight, make life arduous and miserable, make you old and decrepit; but it is never able to help you toward the Good. The Good will not tolerate any alien helper.

This guy is such an obvious cheater that once when he had a hole in one he wrote down zero on his scorecard.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart.

You didn't want to know, so it was easy for her to fool you. She works left-handed.

Happiness was just a trick in your case.

Have you ever stood still while someone lied to you? If so, you know the sickening feeling. Your brain wants to make the situation less disturbing, and oh, how you want to convince yourself the liar is telling the truth.

Munafik adalah berprasangka tapi sok suci.

The most civilized place in the world," murmured Father Yarvi. "Though that mostly means folk prefer to stab each other in the back than in the front.

Good treachery takes effort.

Lessons are built into life. Love and truth must go hand in hand. Love and deceit are contradictory. There is no such thing as love without cost. God's love to us came at the price of the death of His Son, and we can't appreciate that forgiveness and receive that love while substituting our own will for the plan He has for our lives.

Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps produce more wrong in the world than deceit and malice do.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious'—that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.

Samfélagið hvílir á fjórum stöplum, hugsaði hann: fáfræði, leti, ranglæti og asnaskap.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

Ye are of your father the devil… there is no truth in him…. he is a liar, and the father of it.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.