Quotes about Deception
People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
- Edmund Burke
El oro y amores eran malos de encubrir [Gold and love affairs are difficult to hide].
- Anonymous
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
- Anonymous
What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
- Anonymous
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
- Anonymous
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
- Anonymous
I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.
- Anonymous
Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
- Anonymous
The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
- Anonymous
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.
- Anonymous
Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
- Anonymous
There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.
- Anonymous