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Quotes about Deceit

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
- 1 Peter 2:1
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
- 1 Peter 3:10
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
But what clouds our view is the Enemy's skill at cropping photos.
- Louie Giglio
First is his ability to turn you from the way you should go and get you sidetracked. The second is the way he works to portray the cross as odious to you, and lastly, that he points you in the direction which leads to death.
- John Bunyan
Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.
- Thomas a Kempis
Rest from inordinate desire of knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit. Those who have knowledge desire to appear learned, and to be called wise. Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul. And foolish out of measure is he who attendeth upon other things rather than those which serve to his soul's health. Many words satisfy not the soul, but a good life refresheth the mind, and a pure conscience giveth great confidence towards God.
- Thomas a Kempis
Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
- Virginia Woolf
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.
- Charles Dickens
lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.
- Charles Dickens
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.
- Cormac McCarthy