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A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.

Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick.

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.