Quotes About Deception

Shut away, drugged up, and silenced," Faust said. "I'm sure that's exactly what you'd prefer, because you don't want me, or anyone else, revealing the truth.

Why? Because you seduced my mother into bed with empty promises of big acting jobs, got her pregnant, and walked away without paying a dime of child support

The corrupt, self-serving prick was trying to distract you from the truth to save his career, remember?

You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you're trapped in a moment you'll never be able to change.

Satan greets people in hell by saying: "You'll find that there's no right or wrong here—just what works for you.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

What else exhausts like sustained deception?

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing.

Oh, we all are, my young friend! We all deceive. Some of us deceive the whole world, every single fellow creature we meet. Some of us deceive only selected people, wives and lovers, or mothers and fathers. And some of us deceive only ourselves. But none of us is totally honest with everyone all the time, in all matters. Hell, the need to deceive is just one more curse that our sorry species has to bear.

Kelsko was a toad. But he was proud. Kelsko was a pathological liar, but he was not a sucker for the lies of others, the way most liars were, for he had not lost the ability to perceive the difference between truth and falsehood. He simply had no respect for that difference.

Later when we became friends she told me that being a viper was lucrative.

You've never seen a politician who's kept his promise. You've never saw a politician who wasn't a liar.....They want you to do what they say because their word is better than that other guy...It's not!...All politicians are assholes.

Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Blinded following the Blindfolded

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-" "It's Herman Melville.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said