Quotes About Deception

But just because you can picture something does not make it so.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday.

That's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

What are your names?" "You know our names," Violet said curtly, a word which here means "tired of Count Olaf's nonsense." "That wig and that lipstick don't fool us any more than your pale-brown dress and sensible beige shoes. You're Count Olaf.

Si conocieseis al Conde Olaf y éste de repente os sirviese el desayuno, ¿no temeríais que contuviese algo terrible, como veneno o cristal hecho añicos?

Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place.

How could she live?" he asked. "She betrayed me. She betrayed all of us. How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Just because something is typed -- whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book -- this does not mean that it is true.

Uncle Monty tell

When my eyes adjusted to the dark, I could see that what had first appeared to be walls were large cardboard boxes stacked up in every available place, making the room seem smaller than it really was. The dark was real, though. It almost always is.

Olaf smiled at them the way Uncle Monty's Mongolian Meansnake would smile when a white mouse was placed in its cage each day for dinner.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

Count Olaf, like any good businessman, has committed a wide variety of crimes.

Lemony Snicket

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion.

He trades on emotions, not facts.

For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.

Enrolment is tricky. You are telling lies to highly skilled liars.

Doesn't he know that all the world's governments tell lies all day every day, and show no sign of contrition even when they are caught out in such untruths?

Truth can be dispensed with when fantasy dominates. p.63

A lie told often enough becomes truth.