Quotes About Deception

Traitor's word never yet hurt honest cause

If hell...has one complexion more hideous than another, it is where villainy is masked by hypocracy

there are stratagems in law as well as war.

But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of other feelings;

Thus, in regard to the ear, the next organ in importance to the eye, we are repeatedly deceived by such sounds as are imperfectly gathered up and erroneously apprehended. From the false impressions received from this organ also arise consequences similar to those derived from erroneous reports made by the organs of sight. A whole class of superstitious observances arise, and are grounded upon inaccurate and imperfect hearing.

Nay, we are authorized to believe that individuals have died in consequence of having supposed themselves to have taken poison, when, in reality, the draught they had swallowed as such was of an innoxious or restorative quality.

Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Some time ago Ken Galbraith, in his witty and insightful The Great Crash, coined a new economic term: "the bezzle," defined as the current amount of undiscovered embezzlement. This financial creature has a magical quality: The embezzlers are richer by the amount of the bezzle, while the embezzlees do not yet feel poorer.

Reliance Insurance and Home Insurance were run into the ground, for example, their promises proved to be worthless.

You know what this is? - Nope - It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit.

You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.

Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.

All people are scum. No matter what they look like.

En la montaña de los Thunderbolts no todo es lo que parece, Andreas"- Piedra lunar.

What God calls evil can slowly begin to appear normal-even good.

Trust may take forever to build but can be destroyed in less then a heartbeat.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up.  And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie. 

That's the funny thing about running. The deceptive thing about it. It may seem mindless, but its really mental. If the minds strong, the body acts weak, even if its not.

It felt like there was a dark spot in my heart. Like a bruise. And it was getting deeper and wider with every lie I told.

I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.