Quotes about Deception

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against your problems, you get the impression you're fighting for something. Even though all you're really doing is just . . . fighting. For nothing.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.