Quotes about Deception

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Sin makes us fools. We are easily deceived, attracted to hollow and deceptive philosophy, and enticed by arguments that lead us away from Christ. Sin blinds us to our sin!

sin sneaks up on us over time.

The lies that capture us as Christians usually seem to fit well within the borders of our Christianity.

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

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.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.