Quotes about Deception
Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
— John Donne
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
— David Platt
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
— Dorothy Sayers
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
There is no greater misery than false joys.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.
— Alexander Hamilton
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
— Mark Twain
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
— Billy Graham
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.
— Joseph Wirthlin
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
— Epictetus
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
— Clement of Alexandria