Quotes & Sayings About Disguise And Deception

When Scripture describes Satan as an angel of light, it should make the hair on your neck stand up with terror. Man's greatest enemy is most present when we are most certain he is not. He comes as an angel of light. Satan is working his deception through disguise. We think we are doing the right thing, taking the needed stand, fighting the most important foe, but if we are not careful, extremely wise, and cautious, we are doing the opposite. Intending to advance the agenda of our King, we slip very easily into fighting the Lord and assisting satanic schemes. In every section of this book, we will spend one study assessing how Satan deceives us into believing we do well even when we fail to act like men. — James MacDonald

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. — Cardinal Richelieu

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception. — Stacy Schiff

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. — Bell Hooks

The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy. — Sigrid Undset

Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature - a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it. — Ashim Shanker

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life. — Ivan Turgenev

If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception. — William Maxwell

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life. — Harold Klemp

Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the ... enemy does much. — William Shakespeare

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. — Chuck Palahniuk

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. — Douglas Adams

But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the vast majority of its seductions, uses no disguise at all; appears impudently in its naked deformity; and, instead of horrifying all beholders, in accordance with the prediction of the classical satirist, absolutely attracts a much more numerous congregation of worshippers than has ever yet been brought together by the divinest beauties that virtue can display for the allurement of mankind. — Wilkie Collins

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. — Stephen King

People love for so many different reasons. Some love you for only what you can do for them. Others love you for how much money you have or various material things. Love is sometimes tossed around like throwing a bone to a dog. And, some people have love confused with lust or infatuation. Those are both temporary and artificial, not genuine. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. — Annie Jacobsen

It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying. — Robert Jordan

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rise above ... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements. — Eric Hoffer

Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life. — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong. — Kin Hubbard

The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. — Ben Hecht

Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. — Maximillian Degenerez