Quotes About Deceit

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

No man hath it in his power to over-rule the deceitfulness of a woman.

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

My revenue is the silly cheat

If you know how to cheat, start now.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

What kind of deception could deceive even the very elect?

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they stand up sluggishly; they do it only to be seen of men and do not remember Allah save a little. (The Women 4.142)

Framed to make women false.

Always open your heart for Love and not to Deceit and Lies.

The deceit in loving a woman sometimes, is that most women fall in love with assumed personality, but eventually live with their true character.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

what more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us?

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Too nice was a thief, robbing bits of your life out from underneath you, one experience at a time.

And I retired isolated in my corner of world again, seeking to understand what is not understood and to know what is not known. What did I found out? That in the place of Everything is this Great Void-Being, on whose shoulders rests our own Life, which is nothing more than a deceitful Image in the Depths of the Great Void-Being, a Destiny

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

It had always been the laughter that needled through me, a repeated stitch that surfaced over and over again.....Laughter reveals in the same way a sigh or a glance does. It's an unintentional language. Worry, fear, deceit - they hide in the things unsaid.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold.