Quotes About Deception

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it to me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

Don't break my heart just yet, or ask me to lose my reverie on the sticky floor... let me believe I'm the guy they all paid to watch all big and mighty, in the dark where I guess I belong.

But illusions die hard, and the brighter they are the longer they take adying.

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.

I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about.

If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right - it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.

It is necessary to lie to achieve anything of value. And a skilled liar is nearly impossible to detect.

El Código Sith: La paz es una mentira; sólo hay pasión. Con la pasión gano fuerza. Con las victorias rompo mis cadenas. La Fuerza me liberará.

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Better an honest enemy than a false friend.

Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.

"Friend deceives friend, and no-one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me."

True enemies are better than false friends.

The psalmist cries, "If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God."

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.

Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they're scattered everywhere.

How do you keep seeing through all of my disguises?

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

If you aren't sharing knowledge, you are no different from the guy who files false workers' compensation insurance claims.

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'