Quotes about Deception
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
- CS Lewis
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
- St. Augustine
Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
- Erica Jong
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
- AW Tozer
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
- AW Tozer
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
- Martin Luther