Quotes about Deception
I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart
- Dorothy Sayers
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
- Dorothy Sayers
Appearances are often deceiving.
- Aesop
Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.
- Aesop
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
- Aesop
At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.
- Randy Singer
When the gospel is preached, there will be true and false conversions.
- Ray Comfort
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
- John Henry Newman
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
- Richard Sibbes