Best Deception Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

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

“We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in.”

“It was just a game for you-your flames blazed brighter”

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”

“The Press. -- If we consider how even to-day all great political transactions glide upon the stage secretly and stealthily; how they are hidden by unimportant events, and seem small when close at hand; how they only show their far-reaching effect, and leave the soil still quaking, long after they have taken place; -- what significance can we attach to the Press in its present position, with its daily expenditure of lung-power in order to bawl, to deafen, to excite, to terrify? Is it anything more than an everlasting false alarm, which tries to lead our ears and our wits into a false direction?”

“I steer clear of telling. I can't come out with it. The outlandish truth of me. How can I reveal this to someone innocent and unsuspecting? With those who know my story I talk freely about us.... But with others I keep it hidden, the truth. I keep it under wraps because I don't want to shock or make anyone distressed.”

“Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.”

“When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.”

“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.”

“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.”

“A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.”

“Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.”

“There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.”

“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”

“LET'S FACE IT...”

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.”

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”

“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”

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

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

“When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!”

“I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.”

“There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...”

“A lie repeated may build power, but it cannot build trust.”

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“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.”