Quotes about Deception
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
- CS Lewis
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.
- Mark Twain
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.
- Mark Twain
You can't pray a lie.
- Mark Twain
He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.
- Mark Twain
You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.
- Barack Obama
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
T requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
- Marquis de Sade
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
- Martin Luther
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
- Martin Luther
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
- Martin Luther