Quotes about Deception

And the sad thing is that while men refuse to believe the Word of the living God, yet they are sufficiently credulous to accept Satan's lies.

The multitude who cried "Hosanna to the Son of David," speedily changed to "Away with Him, Crucify Him.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.

What have you been doing lately?' 'I? Oh, minding the house—pouring out syrup—pretending to be amiable and contented—learning to have a bad opinion of everybody.

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.