Quotes about Deception
entire churches can be consumed with the demonic drama that proceeds from one tongue speaking on behalf of a bitter heart.
— Mark Driscoll
we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.
— Mark Driscoll
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
— Mark Twain
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
— Mark Twain
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
— Aristotle
whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
— Aristotle
Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
— Arthur C. Clarke
But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.
— Arthur Conan Doyle