Quotes about Deception
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
- Publilius Syrus
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
- Herman Melville
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
- Vernon Howard
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
- Lady Gaga
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
- Martin Luther
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- George Washington
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
- Mark Twain
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
- AW Tozer
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson