Quotes about Deception
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
- Oscar Wilde
are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
- Oscar Wilde
Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.
- Oscar Wilde
We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.
- Oscar Wilde
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
- Oscar Wilde
But she would have soon found out that you were absolutely indifferent to her. And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.
- Oscar Wilde
And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.
- Dallas Willard
Satan can do nothing about God's unshakable kingdom directly, but only indirectly through human infirmity and rebellion. His way of doing that is to persuade, and to tempt, and to deceive humanity.
- Dallas Willard
We see a clear pattern: Satan's constant deception of human beings.
- Dallas Willard
Jesus referred to him as "a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44 NRSV). Indeed, his whole kingdom is based on lies; he works by deceiving.
- Dallas Willard
Satan uses not only our desires to deceive us but also our fears. Fear that we will not get what we desire can provide the motivation for actions that cause so many of our problems.
- Dallas Willard
"Friend deceives friend, and no-one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me."
- Jeremiah 9:5-6