Deceptive Nature Quotes

An evil word it is/ This Love.

I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

A liar is full of oaths.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a pitch fork, Satan would love for you to think of him as a harmless cartoon character, but don't be fooled... Satan is anything but harmless.

He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

I was a shy kid but also very mischievous. Because I looked super innocent, no one could really call me out on my pranks.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

Suge was a part-time security guard at Ruthless. He can be a very charming guy, and my initial instincts were to help him. Eazy was more perceptive: he always thought he was going to be a problem.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.