862 Quotes About Deception

Don’t be deceived by the spirit of complacency and think you have achieved enough. Try to become better than you’ve been.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.

Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.

A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.


Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.