Quotes about Deception
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.
- Cormac McCarthy
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.
- Cormac McCarthy
Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.
- Cormac McCarthy
Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.
- Cormac McCarthy
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises.
- Cormac McCarthy
Listen Sut. We're painted into a corner anyways. I mean what if we was to just call up and say he died? I mean hell fire, you caint fool them guys. Them guys is doctors. They take one look at him and know for a fact he's been dead six months. How does it smell in there? It smells fuckin awful.
- Cormac McCarthy
Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.
- Cormac McCarthy
There's a lot of things look better at a distance
- Cormac McCarthy
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.
- Cormac McCarthy
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha
- DH Lawrence
A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.
- Charles Spurgeon
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
- Charles Stanley