All Quotes By Tag: Deception
“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!”
“You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”
“A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.”
“Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.”
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.”
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”
“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.”
“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…”
“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”
“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep.”
“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”
“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women’s morals almost more than unbridled passion–the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man–was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then–I don’t know how it was– I couldn’t bear to let you go–possibly to Arabella again–and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”