Quotes About Deceit

All that glitters is not gold, and things that look warm are often cold!

Lie is the biggest poison for Love

A snake deserves no pity.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips…" (PSALM 12:3 KJV). Is flattery worth being cut off from the blessings of God?

The conflict between who we are and who we want to be is at the core of the human struggle. Duality, in fact, lies at the very center of the human experience. Life and death, good and evil, hope and resignation coexist in every person and exert their force in every facet of our lives. If we know courage, it is because we have also experienced fear; if we can recognize honesty, it is because we have encountered deceit. And yet most of us deny or ignore our dualistic nature.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.

And then there are many who lead the life of duplicity, not realizing that as they disguise themselves away from others, more they drift away from themselves. It's a poetic justice that the web of deceit and duplicity they begin to weave inside out, thus always turns around to return home outside in.

Tangled web of deceit is the most dangerous situation to be in. Never begin to fall into that trap, no matter how attractive it may be. Truth will always set you free. Truth always triumphs in the end. Lead the life with Truth, Honesty and Integrity.

We occasionally find ourselves either standing in the midst of miserable misunderstanding, or stepping into it totally unintentionally. Misunderstandings can often arise because of our undue reading between the lines, or hearing the unspoken words. Sometimes it's prudent to accept and trust, and take everything at its face value, despite so much of deceit and blatant lies all around.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

If the countess was Death, then Death was a cheat.

corrupt interloper bluffing her way through her life.

lyingest liar of them all.

I'd been wrong about his eyes. They weren't pools. They were ice.

Like certain devotees, who think they can fool God and wrest a pardon by paying lip-service to prayer and adopting the humble attitude of the penitent, Therese humiliated herself, beat her chest, found words of repentance, without having anything in the bottom of her heart except fear and cowardice.

one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

A snake is summer's treason

Will the wise man refuse to engage with such a person, and avoid all dialogue and examination? [26] But of all people he is supposed to be most adept in argument, expert in question and answer, and proof against sophisms and deceit. [27] Or will he engage with him but without caring whether he argues in a confused or careless manner? In that case how then will he be the sort of man we imagine him to be?

the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!

One of the cruelest things about a wrong love is that it delights in tangles and hidden ways; that it teaches and practices deceit from its first inception; that its earliest efforts are toward destroying all older and more sacred attachments.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?