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Quotes about Deceit

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
If we are to know the abundant provision of God's unlimited resources, we must also understand how Satan works to rob us of that experience. He does so by deceit.
- 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
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
- Edmund Burke
It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.
- William Faulkner
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...
- William Faulkner
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
- Henry A. Wallace
Had he allowed this deceit to go unpunished, more of his children would eventually have perished than the two we lost. The evil lurking in our hearts will take over if left unchecked. God has given us a reminder of whom we serve. Just as he did in the days of Moses, when God gave the painful instruction to destroy some in order to save more. In a way, it is encouraging, blessed, to realize that we are serving Moses' God. He has not changed.
- Janette Oke
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
- Heinrich Heine
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
- Anais Nin
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.
- Victor Hugo