Quotes About Deceit

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did

lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

Some persons who are going to perdition: Whiskey-men, saloon-keepers, whoremongers, prostitutes, seducers of innocent virtue, wilful liars, theatre-goers, horse-racers, (and their kind,) tricksters in politics and business, and bad people of all grade are on the road to perdition.

Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.

All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found in Christ; thus if one were to try and arrive at the truth apart from commitment to the epistemic authority of Jesus Christ he would be robbed through vain philosophy and deluded by crafty deceit (see Col. 2:3-8).

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

Deception is the art of war.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.

An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.

He has more tongues in his head than some have teeth.

Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,But turn to ashes on the lips.

But any war is harvest to such Governments, however ruinous it may be to a nation. It serves to keep up deceitful expectations, which prevent a people looking into the defects and abuses of Government. It is the "lo here!" and the "lo there!" that amuses and cheats the multitude.

He's the human equivalent of a spam email,

And isn't that the tragedy of love, it's utter and complete deceit, that you can only be true in it, that you only wish to reveal your full truth to the one you love, with no frills and no lies, that you want to be loved as you are? That you wish to be loved for your truth, and not your ability to hide it?

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.

It is only when taught deceit by the commerce of the world, that we learn to shroud our character from observation, and to disguise our real sentiments from those with whom we are placed in communion.

The banking industry, corporate life, the mass media, religious ministries, athletics, law schools: Each has its scandals. In nearly every case the pattern is similar: Truth is adjusted or "interpreted," ignored or justified away, to get seemingly urgent results. And deceit then spreads and takes root like a weed.