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Quotes about Deception

Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.
- William Faulkner
Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.
- William Faulkner
Al ÅŸunu, diyorum, çikolatay? ona vererek. ÖnlüÄŸümü ç?kar?p o yana geçtim. Baya?? güzeldi. Hani ÅŸu kara gözlüler vard?r ya, bir aldatacak olsan b?ça?? saplayacak gibi görünürler, onlardand?.
- William Faulkner
Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.
- William Faulkner
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
- William Golding
Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- William Hazlitt
Unfortunately, most Christians do not understand the battle they are fighting, the enemy that they face, or the means God has provided to overcome the temptations and deception of this present world system.
- Chip Ingram
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
- Henry A. Wallace
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.
- Leonard Ravenhill
He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.
- Lewis Carroll
You're nothing but a pack of cards!
- Lewis Carroll