Quotes About Deception

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence course.

He sallied forth, having told all those bally lies with the clear, blue, pop-eyed gaze of a young child.

fine figure of a young fellow as far northwards as the neck, but above that solid concrete.

Experience, dearly bought in the days of his residence at the University, had taught him that when the Law gripped you with its talons the only thing to do was to give a false name, say nothing and hope for the best.

She's stopped the allowance... I tell you, Bertie, I've examined the darned clouds with a microscope, and if it's got a silver lining it's some little dissembler!

A man thinks he is being chilled steel – or adamant, if you prefer the expression – and suddenly the mists clear away and he finds that he has allowed a girl to talk him into something frightful. Samson had the same experience with Delilah.

what is a pleasant voice if the soul be vile?

Until tonight I saw him only through the golden mist of love, and thought him the perfect man. This evening he revealed himself as what he really is – a satyr.

Lady Constance conveyed the impression that anybody who had the choice between stealing anything from her and stirring up a nest of hornets with a short walking-stick would do well to choose the hornets.

You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything.

Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself. It is a language specially designed to deceive the chance listener.

Look at the tall, thin one with the face like a motor-mascot. Has he ever done an honest day's work in his life? No! A prowler, a trifler, and a blood-sucker! And I bet he still owes his tailor for those trousers!

you think youseeme but you dont

No te engañó la primavera con besos que no florecieron?

Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Wulfe leaned in. Where did you send Ms. Benoit? Disneyland. Who knows my connection to the Zetas? The US Marshall Service, SWAT, my dentist, Oprah--- How did you know we were coming? Clearly, someone tipped you off. That guy. Zach points with a jerk of his head toward of of Wulfe's minions. The man looked uncertainly at Wulfe, taking a step backward. He text me just before you stepped in the elevator.

Illusion works impenetrable, Weaving webs innumerable; Her gay pictures never fail, Crowd each other, veil on veil; Charmer who will be believed By man who thirsts to be deceived.

Worldly people do not like the candor which shatters their delusions.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady