Quotes About Deceit

creature with imprecise contours, a sort of deceitful, dishonest amoeba that can't be investigated, for, looking for it again under the microscope, we find that it's not there, and we suspect that it's gone, and we soon realize that it has changed shape and is now impossible to recognize.

To me, the Internet is a big scam.

In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light so that we can see the way. More important, so that we can look at ourselves, as well as others, and know how similar we are to the herd.

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When once--which every body must be--you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers—he has an almost uncanny ability to perceive hypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God's truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is the commander in deceit, Satan is the ringleader in rebellion against the faithful. Satan is the sly serpent of temptation. Satan is the false hope of security. Satan is the great pretender. Satan is the great spoiler of everything good. And Satan wants to destroy you.

No longer, then, follow after false and deceitful gods; abjure them rather, and despise them, bursting forth into true liberty. Gods they are not, but malignant spirits, to whom your eternal happiness will be a sore punishment.

When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.