Quotes About Deception

Even if that's just bullshit, sir, it's first-rate bullshit.

Theresa dismissively. "It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid." "What makes me saddest," said John Paul, "is that Locke is getting credit for caring about Ender more than anybody. So when his identity does come out, it'll look as though he loyally stepped in to protect his brother.

You can tell a lie now and then, but what happens to you when you try to live your whole life inside a lie?

Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.

And I never believe a man who says he never lies. A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself, said Taleswapper.

I thought you were my friend. Despite himself, Ender's voice trembled. Graff looked puzzled. Whatever gave you that idea, Ender? Because you— Because you spoke nicely to me, and honestly. You didn't lie.

but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

Perversos y retorcidos son los caminos de la mente humana- recitó Jane-. Pinocho fue un idiota intentando convertirse en un niño de verdad. Estaba mucho mejor con su cabeza de madera.

You're just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there's nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.

Sometimes people with the least that is worth stealing are the most concerned with giving the appearance of having great treasures hidden away.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed.>

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Sin makes our armor vulnerable to attack from Satan, who then gains permission from God to attack us in the area where we have failed to uphold righteousness. If we break down in moral purity, Satan comes in and establishes a stronghold. If we give place to bitterness and unwillingness to forgive, we break fellowship with God and others. If we become money-focused, we fall into greed and deception. Sin is a vicious cycle that leaves us weak and vulnerable to ever more sin.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible....

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

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.