Quotes About Deception

He was always too conscious of himself and of the impression he was creating on others – an infallible sign of the vain and the fraudulent.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Why will mankind be fools, and be deceived? And why are friends' and lovers' oaths believed; When each, who searches strictly his own mind, May so much fraud and power of baseness find?

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

Parsifal is the opera that begins at five-thirty and when you look at your watch three hours later, it is only five forty-five.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.

If somebody tole you, hit could be a lie. But if you dream hit, hit can't be a lie case ain't nobody there to tole hit to you

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

Dalton Ames. Dalton Ames. Dalton Shirts. I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, until I saw they were of heavy Chinese silk or finest flannel because they made his face so brown his eyes so blue. Dalton Ames. It just missed gentility. Theatrical fixture. Just papier-mache, then touch. Oh. Asbestos. Not quite bronze.

Al ÅŸunu, diyorum, çikolatay? ona vererek. ÖnlüÄŸümü ç?kar?p o yana geçtim. Baya?? güzeldi. Hani ÅŸu kara gözlüler vard?r ya, bir aldatacak olsan b?ça?? saplayacak gibi görünürler, onlardand?.

Koridorun sonuna dönüyorum, f?s?lt? taburlar? gibi sessizlikte kaybolan ayaklar? uyand?ra uyand?ra benzine doÄŸru, saat karanl?k masan?n üstünde öfkeli yalan?n? söylemekte. Sonra perdeler karanl?ktan yüzüme doÄŸru üflüyorlar, soluklar?n? yüzüme b?rak?yorlar. Çeyrek var daha.

Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.