Quotes About Deception

No son historias, Lengua de Brujo, es la pura verdad! ¿Es que ya no la reconoces cuando la ves? Cierto: es una chica fea y no es agradable mirarla a la cara.

the sly smile hides the broken heart

But you're too ready to believe what you want to believe, that's your trouble.

Io non credo fondamentalmente a nessuno, ormai dovresti saperlo. Siamo tutti bugiardi quando serve.

But the smile with which he watched the soldiers pass was the smile of a man who had hid an explosive device in his enemies' house and was enjoying mingling with them knowing they had no idea he had planted that bomb. Wicked old man.

die Wahrheit ... ist ein hässliches Mädchen. Man schaut ihr nicht gern ins Gesicht.«

Piper, beware, your end is near, The Adder's power dwindles. He writhes, he goes in mortal fear, Nothing his strength rekindles. Though you seek the Jay in country and town, No sword can wound him, no hound run him down, And when you think you'll succeed in your quest, You find that the bird has flown the nest.

You just have to make a hero believe you're on the side of what's right and just, and he'll go trotting after you like a lamb to the slaughter.

The wrong words. They were true a hundred times over, yet they sounded like a lie. Hadn't he always known it? Words were useless. At times they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.

The reason there's no use looking," said Mr. Beaver, "is that we know already where he's gone!" Everyone stared in amazement. "Don't you understand?" said Mr. Beaver. "He's gone to her, to the White Witch. He has betrayed us all." C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt.

think that the tragedy of human existence is our world is run by people who are really good at kidding themselves, like your father. Your dad manages to kid himself that he's rich and powerful because he's the cream and has risen to the top. But he's not stupid. He knows he's kidding himself. So underneath that top layer of bullshit is another, more aware belief system: the belief that everyone else would kid themselves the same way he does, if they had the chance.

People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—" "And because they're smart at everything," Seth said, "that makes it okay for them to be evil bastards?

If you want, you can make him seem erratic and unreliable so they get rid of him. You can manufacture crises that might make one side or the other reveal the identities of other spies. In short, you own them. This is called the man-in-the-middle attack and if you think about it, it's pretty scary. Someone who man-in-the-middles your communications can trick you in any of a thousand ways. No man, I don't get scared. I'm always scared.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

You said I was in love. You were right. But that never happened, either.

I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.

He says he comes in peace, said Hiccup He's still going to kill us, though.

I promise,' said Alvin, 'word of a Treacherous.

I'm sorry we lied to you, Mother. But the ends justify the means… A fine outcome excuses a bad method… You'll understand when you're older.

We don't exist, We're only mist, And that was just the wind that hissed.

Revolution required illusion. The two went hand in glove, like a plate of rice and beans.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

She felt funny, strange, making up lies as quickly and smoothly as if she'd been doing it all her life.