Quotes About Deception

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.

Miriam Rothschild's cousin Ewen Montagu had helped run Operation Mincemeat, which in April 1943 used the staged death of a British officer—complete with false identification and intelligence documents—to convince the Germans that the Allies were planning to invade Greece.)

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

It was the tiniest scrap of misinformation, insignificant really. But. . . . That was not the story at all.

a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth

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When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not.

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

I thought that you had changed me, but it was just a trick. You sawing back and forth above my chest till I was cut in half, dark magician.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis—whatever it is—will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.

You sound very confident, Teddy," Duncan said. "Is that because you tossed the rape kit or altered the case number so it would never be found?

Mulholland Drive is a two-lane, serpentine road that runs along the crest of the mountains and is named after the guy who built a two-hundred-mile aqueduct to drain water from the Northern California delta down to Los Angeles just so developers could get rich building homes in a place that otherwise is inhospitable to human life. The whole city is a carefully constructed lie built on greed.

Yeah," Snell said, waving a Ferrari past the truck but looking at Eve as he did it, "the same people you're giving blow jobs to every day to get your TV show. The only difference between you and Detective Garvey is that he earned his badge and doesn't have to betray other cops to get ahead.