Quotes about Deception

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

And be very careful what friends you make. You never know what sort of creatures are in them colleges. Outwardly they may be as whited sepulchers and inwardly as ravening wolves, that's what.

what perverted shapes thwarted love can take.

one sin demands another to cover it.

Sin has corrupted not only what we do, but also how we think, what goals we set, and how we feel about ourselves and others. Merely changing what we do will not change who we are. The cure for the selfishness and fear that control so much of what we do cannot be reduced to shallow solutions; we need to learn how our minds deceive us.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.